Debra L. House, Associate Director
Central / Northern Regions

Debra House is the Central Region Associate Director with Legal Aid of East Tennessee. She has been with LAET for 21 years and has concentrated her poverty law practice primarily in the areas of family and juvenile law. Deb is a member of the Knoxville and Tennessee Bar Associations and is the Chair of the TBA Access to Justice Committee. She also is past chair of the Juvenile and Children’s Law section and a member of the Executive Council of the Family Law section of the TBA. Deb is also the immediate past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services. Deb is the past President of the East Tennessee Lawyer’s Association for Women and serves on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Lawyer’s Association for Women.
Deb also spends time training and teaching others. She is part of a training consortium to train mediators in the legal aspects of domestic violence. Deb was recently the Charles H. Miller Visiting Professor of Clinical Programs at the University of Tennessee College of Law where she developed and taught a clinical mediation program and where she currently serves as an adjunct professor teaching a negotiation and ADR course. Deb received her BS degree from Western Michigan University and her law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law.