LSND is governed by a fifteen member board of directors which meets on a quarterly basis each year. The Board includes ten attorneys that are appointed by the State Bar Association of North Dakota. The remaining positions include appointments by the Council on Abused Women Services, North Dakota Mental Health Association, Fort Berthold Community College, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), and Turtle Mountain Victims of Crime Assistance.
Wade Enget President PO Box 369 Stanley, ND 58734-0369 (701)628-2065	Mary Kae Kelsch Secretary/Treasurer 600 East Boulevard Bismarck, ND 58505 (701) 328-4889
Laurel Forsberg PO Box 1366 Williston, ND 58802-1366 (701) 577-6771	Robert Manly - Fargo Vice President PO Box 1077 Moorhead, MN 56561 (218)236-6462
Lisa Tomlinson Client Minot, ND 58701	Edna Schultz Client Steele, ND 58482
Al Lerberg PO Box 7 Parshall, ND 58770 (701) 862-3131	Paul C Murphy 909 Main St Carrington, ND 58421-1258 (701)625-1200
Diane Johnson 4710 Pintail Loop SE Mandan, ND 58554 (701) 250-4604	Gary Ramsey PO Box 1157 Dickinson, ND 58601 (701) 225-6074
Veronica Kirkaldie Client New Town, ND 58763	Lynn Clayson Gifford Client Fargo, ND 58103-1796
Jeanne McLean PO Box 9003 Grand Forks, ND 58202 (701) 777-2104	Dr. Larry Gorospe Client Belcourt, ND 58316
Alan McDonagh 311 S 4th St Ste 101 Grand Forks, ND 58201-4708 (701)775-8146

The United States Congress established the Legal Services Corporation to provide low-income Americans access to civil legal aid. To carry out this responsibility, the Corporation provides grants to approximately 179 local legal aid programs, which serve every county in the nation. These local programs offer legal assistance to financially eligible clients.

The Corporation itself does not offer legal aid directly. However, an LSC program in your area may be able to provide you with some assistance. This Directory lists program main offices only. Many programs also have branch offices, and the program in your area may be able to refer you to a branch office for assistance.

Legal Services of North Dakota (LSND) came into existence on January 01, 2004. LSND was formed when North Dakota Legal Services merged with Legal Assistance of North Dakota. North Dakota Legal Services had served clients on the Ft. Berthold Indian Reservation, along with McKenzie County, North Dakota. It had also subcontracted with Legal Assistance of North Dakota for many years to provide services to residents of Mountrail, Dunn, Golden Valley, and Billings Counties. Legal Assistance of North Dakota provided services to all other counties in North Dakota.

Upon the merger of the two programs, Jim Fitzsimmons, the former executive director of North Dakota Legal Services, assumed the position of executive director for Legal Services of North Dakota. He started at North Dakota Legal Services in 1978. Linda Catalano, the former executive director of Legal Assistance of North Dakota, who started with the program in 1974, became the managing attorney for the Fargo law office.

LSND has its headquarters in Bismarck, North Dakota, with law offices located in Bismarck, Fargo, Minot, and New Town. The Minot office has a satellite office in Belcourt, North Dakota, on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. The Belcourt office does weekly outreach to the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation. In addition to the law offices, there is also a Central Intake Office (which shares space with the Minot Law Office) and an administrative office (which shares space with the Bismarck Law Office).

Richard LeMay, who started with Legal Assistance of North Dakota in 1988, is in charge of the Central Intake office, as well as serving as Litigation Director. The Bismarck law office is managed by Brad Peterson, who started at Legal Assistance of North Dakota in 2002. Before that, he worked for Dakota Plains Legal Services in its Ft. Yates, North Dakota office. The Minot law office is supervised by Carrie Francis. She began work at the Minot office of Legal Assistance of North Dakota in 2001. The New Town law office is managed by Jim Fitzsimmons.