Stacey L. Tutt
Assistant Clinical Professor
Director of Community Preservation Clinic
Professor Stacey L. Tutt joined the College of Law in June 2011 to develop and direct a Community Preservation Clinic, which teaches students the skills of lawyering while exploring a community-based, non-traditional approach to poverty law. The clinic works to develop and implement a comprehensive response to community blight brought on by the foreclosure crisis.
She is currently vice president of the Board of Directors for Illinois Legal Aid Online.
Prior to teaching, Professor Tutt was managing attorney at Prairie State Legal Services, Inc. in Bloomington, Illinois. In this role, she supervised civil legal services to low-income residents and seniors in Livingston, McLean, and East Woodford counties. For over six years, she represented clients in maintaining housing benefits, landlord-tenant issues, utility problems, obtaining public benefits, Orders of Protection, family law matters, prevention of mortgage foreclosures, and bankruptcy. Professor Tutt also created a Lawyer-in-the-Courtroom program for the McLean County Forcible Entry and Detainer docket call to assist in the prevention of homelessness. Prior to joining Prairie State, Stacey served as the associate director of career services at the University of Illinois College of Law.
Professor Tutt graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law in 2003 where, among many other honors, she received the Illinois Women's Bar Association Public Service Scholarship, the Rickert Award for Excellence in Public Service, and served as the president of the Public Interest Law Foundation. She also earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology with honors from the University of Illinois.