Scott M. Hollander, Esquire
Executive Director KidsVoice
Scott Hollander, executive director of KidsVoice, brings extensive academic, analytical and practical expertise from years of representing children in private practice and public service. He has worked in a variety of states, representing children in class action and individual cases -- including abuse, neglect, custody, adoption, personal injury, wrongful death, psychiatric malpractice, delinquency, emancipation, guardianship, educational rights and special education matters. His legislative efforts and precedent-setting cases have changed how laws affect children.

Hollander developed the nation’s first program to recruit, train, and utilize volunteer attorneys to represent children in domestic violence cases involving restraining orders between parents. That pro bono program was named by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges as a “best practices” model in 1997.

In 1995, Hollander was the only child advocate appointed by the National Center for State Courts to help conduct a national study and evaluation of custody decisions in domestic violence cases. He also co-authored the Uniform Tribal Children's Code, which contains the child abuse and neglect laws for the seven Native American Tribes of Michigan.

Before joining KidsVoice, Hollander was an attorney with the Pittsburgh firm of Evans Ivory and a law firm in Seattle. He previously served as the senior staff attorney and pro bono coordinator of the Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center in Denver and taught child advocacy and trial skills as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver College of Law.

Hollander received his B.A. from Tufts University and his J.D. from the University of Michigan, where he represented children in abuse, neglect and custody proceedings in the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and was awarded an interdisciplinary fellowship to study child abuse.

Active in professional associations, Hollander serves on the National Association of Counsel for Children and the United States Attorney's Crimes Against Children Task Force. In addition, he is a member of the Dependency Subcommittee of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee on Racial and Gender Bias. Hollander was appointed to the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Professional Responsibility & Ethics Committee, co-chairs its Children's Rights Committee, and was appointed to its House of Delegates. In addition, he serves on the Chatham College Social Work Advisory Board, the Permanency Planning Task Force of Allegheny County and the Board of ChildWatch.

Hollander currently serves as an adjunct professor at Duquesne University Law School, where he teaches in the Civil and Family Justice Clinic. He also works as a consultant for Hollywood screenplays and television scripts. His latest project, The Guardian, is a weekly television program on CBS about child advocacy in Pittsburgh.