Board of Trustees

Regina Catherine Little, Esq. is an alumna of Rutgers University School of Law. She began her career as a staff attorney in the Middlesex County Legal Services program in New Brunswick. At the inception of the statewide Legal Services of New Jersey, Melville D. (“De”) Miller hired Little as the first LSNJ staff attorney. Miller mentored Little in their mutual interest in the law as a means of reforming conditions that inflict suffering, perpetuate poverty, and marginalize entire communities.

A child of working-class parents who were poor despite hard work, Little was attracted to the legal profession by the work of civil rights attorneys like Thurgood Marshal who showed the law as a means of improving unjust conditions. While a student, she participated in the Urban Legal Clinic, the Essex-Newark Law Reform Project, and the Women’s Rights Law Reporter. She went on to became a founding officer of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers, a union advocating for staff and clients, and later represented employees in the private and public sectors.

Little says she is “honored to serve the community in that capacity with deep admiration for the staff who provide excellent legal service, assiduously and indefatigably, working for relief and justice for people living in poverty.”