Uplift Family Services names new chief operating officer

Sept. 01--Kathryn McCarthy has been named the new chief operating officer and general counsel for Uplift Family Services.

McCarthy will oversee all clinical and shared services operations with the nonprofit family behavioral services program. She will continue as general counsel to the board of directors, CEO and executive leadership team.

"In light of Kathy's superlative leadership in her role as chief administrative officer/general counsel, it is natural outcome that she would inherit the significant role of chief operating officer/general counsel," said Uplift Family Services president and CEO Darrell Evora in a press statement.

Prior to joining the agency in 2010 as chief legal counsel, McCarthy worked in private practice for 27 years. Twenty-one of those years were spent with Hoge, Fenton Jones & Appel, Inc. of San Jose.

In 2013 McCarthy was promoted to chief administrative officer and general counsel.

McCarthy is a member of the Santa Clara Bar Association, a senior fellow with American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley and chair of its board of directors. She is also chair of the board of trustees for the Health Trust and a member of the Santa Clara School of Law Board of Visitors.

Her achievements include being named a Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Top Lawyer in business and employment law from Corporate Counsel Magazine and the Best Lawyers in America publication.

Uplift Family services, formerly EMQ Families First, provides mental and behavioral health treatment programs in California. Services are provided in the Bay Area, Fresno, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Bernardino.

In July the agency celebrated its 150th year of service. The agency began in 1867 as the Eastfield Home of Benevolence, an orphanage in San Jose, and the Ming Quong Presbyterian Mission Home, which took in Chinese girls rescued from slavery.

Today, more than 30,000 children and families are served at various treatment centers in 30 counties in California.

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