Ms. Wallace has served as a member of the State Bar of Georgia’s Bench and Bar Committee since 2007. She is a Master in the Bleckley Inn of Court for Georgia State Law School. Ms. Wallace was a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Civil Justice Foundation from 1999 – 2007. From 1998 – 2009, she served on the State Bar of Georgia’s Disciplinary Rules Committee, which drafted the first-ever disciplinary rules for lawyers in the State of Georgia.
Lee Wallace has sat on the boards of both the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers and the Sole Practitioner/Small Firm section of the Atlanta Bar, and has chaired committees for both groups. She served as secretary of GAWL, and co-chaired its Brown Bag Luncheon program.
Lee Wallace served on the Atlanta Bar Association’s Judicial Selection and Service Committee, and chaired that bar’s State Courts Committee. Ms. Wallace served as a member of the Emerging Issues Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tort and Insurance Practice Section.
Ms. Wallace co-chaired the Consumer Affairs Committee of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, and edited GTLA’s Verdict magazine for two years.
She also served as GTLA parliamentarian. In cooperation with the Chamblee Georgia Police Department, the University of Georgia Extension Service, and the DeKalb Safe Kids Coalition, Ms. Wallace organized a GTLA drive to provide free bicycle helmets to children who did not have them.
Lee Wallace is a member of Taxpayers Against Fraud, a group dedicated to prosecuting and stopping false claims against the Government.
Ms. Wallace has served as a member of the Emerging Issues Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tort and Insurance Practice Section. Lee Wallace has spoken at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association. She also served on the Emerging Issues Committee of the ABA’s Tort and Insurance Practice Section. Lee Wallace is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association, now the American Association for Justice, and has spoken at several of its annual meetings.
Lee Wallace is a member of the Lawyers Club of Atlanta.
Lee Wallace and her husband George have been married since 1994 and have two children.
After a spinal cord injury in 1983, George did rehabilitation at Shepherd Center. In 1998, Shepherd Center opened a short-term living facility across from their church, ChristChurch Presbyterian Church in America, and the Wallaces saw an opportunity to express their gratitude. They founded a ministry through their church to host “Sundaes on Sunday”, an ice cream social for residents and their families.