Excerpt taken from: Maryland The Daily Record
Courage, effort, and skill have helped Sky Woodward lead a
successful legal career, culminating in her current service as
general counsel and chief administrative officer for Helping Up
Mission, Inc., in Baltimore.
“I love and am deeply committed to my one and only one client, for which
my entire body of work as a lawyer is utilized daily to help the organization
provide hope and transformation to people experiencing homelessness, poverty
or addiction by meeting their physical, psychological, social, and spiritual
needs,’ Woodward said.
The former Girl Scout said she has always applied the organization’s motto to
“leave something better than you found it:’
She previously worked as an equity partner at Bradley Arant Boult
Cummings, LLP, in Washington, D.C. She was a principal at Miles &
Stockbridge, P.C., and an associate at law firms in Baltimore and San Francisco.
Woodward helps HUM, a nonprofit dedicated to helping the city’s homeless
and addicted populations recover, through representation on a major real
estate transaction, and by developing policies and procedures to support its
accreditation process.
She recently served on the Maryland State Board of Elections board.
Woodward earned her law degree from George Washington School of Law
and her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma.