Celebrating 50 Years of Impact

In 2025, Legal Counsel for the Elderly is celebrating 50 years of improving lives for older adults across DC. Thanks to the support of the DC community, tens of thousands of people have benefited from more stable housing, increased economic security, control of their future, and reliable health and safety supports.

50^th Anniversary Jubilee

On November 6, 2025, nearly 400 people gathered at the International Spy Museum to celebrate Legal Counsel for the Elderly’s 50-year milestone. The evening featured powerful reflections from Executive Director Rhonda Cunningham Holmes, members of LCE’s Board, AARP CEO Myechia Minter-Jordan, and Oscar-nominated writer, director, and producer Lee Daniels. To see more photos from the event, visit our 50^th Anniversary Gallery!

We also debuted four new videos that provide insights into LCE’s history and impact. You can watch our videos on YouTube — perfect for sharing with your networks:

• A congratulations video from some of our top sponsors.
• The story of LCE’s 50-year history
• A spotlight on Social Security Disability Insurance
• A spotlight on our work with residents impacted by the fire at Arthur Capper Senior Apartments

Thank You to our Colleagues at AARP

We’re so grateful for AARP’s support – both for their presenting sponsorship of our Jubilee and for the generosity of so many AARP employees. As a token of our thanks, on Thursday, December 11 from 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM, LCE staff will be in the AARP Café Overflow space, offering sweet treats and a trivia game that provides you the chance to win prizes.

50th Anniversary Campaign

Our 50^th Anniversary Jubilee was the celebratory highlight of our three-year campaign to raise $1 million from individual donors in support of LCE’s growing impact on DC’s older adults. Led by a Campaign Committee composed of LCE’s Board of Directors, Advisory Committee, Young Lawyers Alliance, and dedicated supporters, this campaign is strengthening relationships with current donors and securing 1,000 new donors who share our vision for the future. Our campaign theme, Defend. Protect. Empower., reflects the heart of LCE’s mission and the work we are committed to advancing for the next 50 years.

During our campaign, all first-time donations to LCE are being matched, dollar for dollar, up to $200,000, thanks to committed supporters. You can donate to our campaign at any time by clicking here.

Campaign Committee

Honorary Chair
Lee Daniels

Campaign Co-Chairs
Kevin Donnellan, AARP (retired)
Brenda V. Smith, American University, Washington College of Law (retired)

Campaign Committee
Morey Barnes Yost, Alston & Bird LLP
Daniel A. Cantor, Arnold & Porter
Karen Ellis Carr, ArentFox Schiff LLP
Kristin Dillon, AARP
Bill Isaacson, Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP
Ross Handler, Perkins Coie LLP
Sara Kropf, Kropf Moseley PLLC
Elizabeth Mitchell, WilmerHale
Candace Moss, Cummins, Inc.
Darby Rourick, Covington & Burling LLP
Rhonda Cunningham Holmes, LCE Executive Director

Event Sponsors

Your sponsorship will help LCE provide life-saving and life-changing supports to older adults across DC. With your support, we will address the most important aspects of their lives: housing, economic security, self-determination, and health & safety. We are so grateful to our sponsors listed below, as of August 15, 2025.

For more information about sponsorship, contact Billy Fettweis at wfettweis@aarp.org.

Presenting Sponsor

AARP

$50,000 plus

Arnold & Porter LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP 

$25,000 plus

Covington & Burling LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Steptoe LLP
WilmerHale

$15,000 plus

Mayer Brown LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

$10,000 plus

ArentFox Schiff LLP 
Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP
Foley & Lardner LLP
Groom Law Group
Kropf Moseley Schmitt PLLC
Mehlman Consulting
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

$7,500 plus

Alston & Bird LLP
Blank Rome LLP
Dechert LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP

$5,000 plus

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Eversheds Sutherland 
FabrizioWard
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP 
FTI Consulting
Holland & Knight LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP 
McDermott Will & Schulte LLP
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Nixon Peabody LLP 
Patrick Malone & Associates
Sidley
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Williams & Connolly LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

$2,500 plus

A&O Shearman LLP 
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Blue State
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered
Clifford Chance
DLA Piper LLP
Exelon 
Impact Strategies
K&L Gates LLP
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
McCarter & English, LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Wiley Rein LLP

$1,000 plus

The Austin Group, LLC
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Crowell & Moring LLP
Hollingsworth, LLP
Husch Blackwell LLP
Keller & Heckman LLP
Lowenstein Sandler LLP
McGuireWoods LLP