Rubicon Legal Services

Rosemary is the Managing Attorney at Rubicon Legal Services. She joined The Hawkins Center in 2002 as a Staff Attorney in the Social Security Advocacy Program and became Managing Attorney in 2008. Prior to her work here she was an attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid's San Francisco office (then known as San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation), in the Community Health Advocacy Project. She also worked for the City of Oakland, ensuring the City'™s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

She graduated from Colgate University in 1985, where she received honors for her work in political science and peace studies. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1997. She has been honored with awards for her demonstrated commitment to public interest, including fellowships from the National Association of Public Interest Law and Equal Justice America, as well as the Jeffrey Crandall Public Interest Award for the Georgetown graduate who best exemplifies the ideals of Legal Aid.

Prior to law school, Rosemary spent 9 years working for non-profit organizations, as an education program director for a rape crisis center, an executive director of a battered women's agency, and as a program developer and grantwriter for San Francisco's largest community health center. While attending Georgetown University Law Center, she clerked for a U.S.-based international human rights organization, a national labor union, a civil legal aid organization, and the Jakarta office of an Indonesian human rights organization.

Beth has been a Staff Attorney in our Social Security disability advocacy program since 1997. In 2003 she took time off to raise her young children, returning to Rubicon in 2007. Throughout her tenure, she has practiced exclusively in the area of Social Security disability law. She has represented hundreds of clients at Social Security hearings and has handled cases all the way to Federal Court. Prior to her work at the Hawkins Center, Beth worked as a supported living specialist for Golden Gate Regional Center. She has worked as an attorney at Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) and volunteered at Community Alliance for Special Education (CASE)advising parents of their rights under special education laws.

Beth graduated from Ithaca College in 1989 and received her J.D. from George Washington University National Law Center in 1993. She has been honored with an award for outstanding service in public interest law by the Bar Association of San Francisco.