NCLR's Sakimura tapped to lead children's legal agency
ebar.comA longtime deputy director at San Francisco-based National Center for Lesbian Rights has embarked on a new job leading Legal Services for Children.That nonprofit, known as LSC, is also headquartered in San Francisco.
Cathy Sakimura, a queer woman, began serving as its executive director June 20.Sakimura, 42, replaced Ronald "Ron" Gutierrez, the agency's interim executive director.
Gutierrez, the agency's longtime clinical director who leads the social work side of the organization, filled in after the agency's former executive director, Abigail Trillin, took a position at Stanford University in November 2021.
Trillin was with the agency for 25 years, first as its legal director and then as its executive director for about eight years, LSC board chair Kim Thompson told the Bay Area Reporter.Thompson, who has been on LSC's board for more than 16 years, also served on the executive search committee, she said.LSC's community got its first glimpse of its new leader at its gala June 1, where Sakimura briefly addressed about 125 attendees at the outdoor event at Salesforce Park in San Francisco."In this time, when children and families are facing horrific tragedy, and increasing instability, the work of LSC is more important than ever," Sakimura said during her five-minute speech given a week after the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas that took the lives of 19 children and two teachers.
