Rebecca Salmon Receives Liberty Bell Award

Judge Merck presents the Liberty Bell Award
to Rebecca Ellen Salmon

The Liberty Bell Award is awarded annually by the DeKalb Bar Association in conjunction with our Law Day program, for accomplishments in public service. Rebecca Ellen Salmon is this year’s recipient of the Liberty Bell Award for her work in the Immigrant Children Advocacy Project (IACP). Ms. Salmon received her J.D. from University of Georgia School of Law in 2007. During 2006 she had a law school internship at Catholic Charities and later continued to work there as an Equal Justice Works Fellow (EJW).

While an EJW Fellow, Ms. Salmon developed the Immigrant Child Advocacy Project of Catholic Charities of Atlanta. Her project addressed the needs of unaccompanied immigrant children facing severe challenges. Many of these children suffer from abuse, abandonment, and neglect, which aggravate an already uncertain legal status in the United States. Ms. Salmon is dedicated to representing lost children who are unable to afford an attorney while being detained, and to assisting those who have been abused and abandoned to obtain Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.

Ms. Salmon has also worked on numerous “Know Your Rights” and “Immigration 101” semi-nars in the metro Atlanta area, educating the surrounding community on immigration-related issues, as well as targeted juvenile law training, and state juvenile court work. Ms. Salmon is in private practice, but continues her work with Catholic Charities as a contract attorney.