Vicki Schultz

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Executive Director, Maryland Legal Aid

Vicki Schultz’s career has come full circle. She began as a litigator and an advocate at Maryland Legal Aid where she handled housing, consumer, domestic and custody cases in Baltimore for low-income clients.

Last year, Schultz was named as executive director of Maryland Legal Aid, a private, nonprofit law firm that provides free, civil legal services to people in the city of Baltimore and Maryland’s 23 counties from 12 offices statewide.

Prior to joining Maryland Legal Aid, Schultz served as an associate dean for administration for the University of Baltimore School of Law. There, she oversaw the law school’s operations, communications, admissions, career development, budget and staffing, and alumni relations. In 2022, she was selected by then-Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh to lead the Access to Counsel in Evictions Task Force. Schultz is also currently the commissioner on the Maryland Access to Justice Commission.

Prior to her work at the law school, Schultz served as a deputy assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice during the Obama administration.

She managed the fair housing and fair lending enforcement and the human rights work of the division. Before joining the U.S. Department of Justice, Schultz was a senior adviser to Department of Labor Secretary, Thomas E. Perez and was instrumental in crafting the state’s foreclosure reforms and response to the mortgage crisis.

She served as a board member on the Public Justice Center for six years and sat on the board of the New Song Community Learning Center.