Ledy VanKavage, Esq.
Ledy VanKavage began her legal career as a judicial law clerk for the Illinois Appellate Court and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. After working at a St. Louis environmental law firm - Green, Hennings, and Henry - she served as an attorney advisor for the U.S. Health and Human Services Department.
Ledy has worked extensively in the humane movement. In 1985, she organized the Madison County Coalition Against Pound Seizure, successfully stopping the sale of animals for research from her county animal control facility. She then founded the Madison County Humane Society and served as its president for eight years. In 1992 she co-founded the Illinois Federation of Humane Societies and served on its board for 10 years. She was also a co-founder of Operation SPOT (Stop Pet Overpopulation Today) in the St. Louis metropolitan area and served as a board member for eight years. Ledy joined the ASPCA in 1999 and serves as the Senior Director of Legal Training and Legislation.
Ledy graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a B.S. in zoology and attended graduate school at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in environmental studies, before going to St. Louis University and earning her J.D. Ledy is from the heartland; she currently resides in exurbia, Illinois with her husband, Cliff, who is the Arts and Entertainment Editor for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Ledy and her husband have adopted three brindle pit bulls, Clarence Darrow, Che, and Bella, and also oversee a feral cat colony in their neighborhood.
