Lisa M. Courtney, Esq. is the Director of the newly formed Division of Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR) in the NYS Office of Court Administration, where she works to promote the growth of alternative dispute resolution programs throughout New York State. Lisa led the Statewide ADR Office as Statewide ADR Coordinator from June 2017-March 2024, and previously served as Special Projects Counsel. She has overseen the Housing Court’s Volunteer Lawyer Program, Help Centers, Community Seminars, and the Civil Court’s Mediation Program, and worked as a court attorney in the Bronx and Manhattan.

Lisa is an advisor to the Chief Judge’s Statewide ADR Advisory Committee, former co-chair of the New York Women’s Bar Association’s ADR Committee, and winner of the NY Peace Institute’s Peace Raiser Award (2019). Lisa previously worked as a litigation associate before joining the court system, and as a legal writing instructor.

Lisa received her J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and graduated cum laude from Columbia College. She speaks Spanish and Hebrew.