Pennsauken native Kevin Walsh is one of 13 individual inductees into of the Camden Catholic High School Hall of Fame. Walsh will be installed into the Emerald Hall of Fame for Academics and Arts during a special event on Saturday, April 25.
“We are pleased to announce the ninth class of inductees into the Camden Catholic High School Hall of Fame for 2015,” said Hall of Fame committee chairperson Jack Wixted ’72. “The Hall of Fame event is one which our entire Camden Catholic community anticipates each year. It is a spirited celebration of the exemplary alumni and friends of CCHS who have proven themselves academically, artistically, civically, and athletically.”
“I am excited to be recognized by my alma mater, a great institution that prepared me well for the world,” says Walsh, a member of Camden Catholic’s Class of 1991 who spent 30 years in Pennsauken before moving “next door” to Merchantville, where he lives with his wife, Rosemary, and four boys.
Walsh is an attorney who has worked since graduating law school to advance the cause of social justice in New Jersey. In 2000, he joined the Fair Share Housing Center, a non-profit legal and policy center devoted to defending the housing rights of New Jersey’s poor through enforcement of the Mount Laurel Doctrine, the landmark decision that prohibits economic discrimination through exclusionary zoning and requires all towns to provide their “fair share” of their region’s need for affordable housing. He currently serves as the organization’s executive director.
Walsh is a graduate of The Catholic University of America, during which he served as a White House intern during the Clinton Administration. Between his 1L and 2L years at Rutgers University School of Law in Camden, Mr. Walsh took a year off to volunteer at Central Virginia Legal Aid in Richmond, Virginia, where he served as member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.
Walsh argues frequently before the New Jersey Supreme Court and was also part of the team that led the fight to abolish the death penalty in New Jersey.
Mr. Walsh has served on the board of trustees of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Camden for a decade. He has been appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court to serve on three committees, including the Committee on Character and the Civil Practice Committee.
Mr. Walsh was recognized in 2008 by the New Jersey Law Journal as one of 40 promising young professionals in New Jersey’s legal community. He has received awards from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development; the New Jersey State Conference of the NAACP; the Rutgers-Camden Black Law Students Association; Romero Center Ministries of Camden; and the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Mr. Walsh received the Mary Philbrook Award from Rutgers School of Law – Camden in October 2012 and was named Lawyer of the Year in December 2012 by the New Jersey Law Journal.
