Giving every child a voice

RIP Kevin Courtney

The Children’s Law Center has lost a valued member of its community in Board Member and Treasurer, Kevin L. Courtney, who passed away suddenly in late November, 2023. We extend our condolences to Kevin’s five children and their families, including his five grandchildren, on their loss.

Kevin was a truly admirable individual whose unique life journey brought a mixture of joy and sadness. He was married before graduating high school and then, with his wife Ginny, raised a family of six wonderful children with unparalleled dedication, including four of whom were adoptees. Kevin and Ginny lost a daughter to premature death in 2007 and then, in 2017, Kevin lost Ginny to cancer. Until the time of his own death, Kevin raised his youngest children as a single parent.

Such daunting challenges would cripple the strongest among us, but Kevin, with a lifelong history of commitment to marginalized populations, doubled down. He embraced his family responsibilities while also taking on volunteer advocacy work in various capacities, including at the Children’s Law Center of MA, where he eventually assumed the board treasurer’s role. That post allowed him to put his financial acumen to work to the benefit of our agency and clients, from handling investments to strategizing around funder and regulatory requirements geared to maintaining the financial stability our critical non-profit requires.

Kevin Courtney was deeply respected and loved by his fellow board members at CLCM, including two long-time members and friends who worked with him in the private sector through the decades. These two members have been able to confirm that the virtues of Kevin Courtney which most of us witnessed over his seven-year volunteer stint with CLCM--kindness, graciousness, selflessness, and passion for poor and vulnerable children—were and are the true measure of the man. His death leaves a huge void at our agency.