About me
Anh LyJordan serves as the Director of the Wake County Legal Support Center for the North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission. She has previously served as a Project Manager for the Housing Stability Project with the North Carolina Pro Bono Resource Center. In this position, Anh managed a program of volunteer attorneys with an aim to increase housing stability by providing income-based assistance to North Carolina’s most vulnerable tenants, who are in imminent danger of eviction due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while providing property owners with alternatives to eviction through the HOPE program.
Prior to joining the Commission, Anh spent over 25 years working in the field of employee and labor relations – first at Nabisco where she had the pleasure of working amongst cookies and crackers at several Nabisco bakeries in Philadelphia, New Jersey, and the Bronx before attending Rutgers School of Law in Newark, New Jersey. After a stint with a NYC big law firm, she moved to the DC area, where she spent ten years as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Labor litigating cases on behalf of American workers. The LyJordan family relocated to Raleigh in 2017 so that Anh could create Accelerate The Climb and COFLAN, organizations dedicated to helping first-generation college students transition from college to career.
Anh was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and came to the U.S. with her family in 1975. She grew up outside of Buffalo, New York, and attended Cornell University as a first-generation college student, graduating with a degree in Industrial and Labor Relations. She currently lives in Raleigh, NC, with her husband, two sons and two pups Wilbur and Phoebe.
