Antoinette Naddour
Executive Director Emerita and Co-founder @Veterans Legal Institute
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WORK HISTORY
Executive Director Emerita and Co-founder @Veterans Legal Institute
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As Executive Director Emirata, I provide visionary leadership and strategic oversight to Veterans Legal Institute’s mission of delivering pro bono legal services to marginalized veterans. In this elevated role, I serve as a dedicated ambassador—cultivating high‑level partnerships, securing philanthropic support, and expanding organizational impact statewide. I represent the organization at major events, leverage my legal expertise and lived experience to shape policy advocacy, and champion innovation in veteran legal aid. This title underscores my emeritus-level guidance while maintaining active involvement in advancing VLI’s core mission.
EDUCATION
Chapman University Fowler School of Law
Juris Doctor, Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Chapman University Fowler School of Law
LLM, Business & Economics
Chapman University
BS, Business Administration, Marketing and Management
ABOUT ANTOINETTE NADDOUR
Antoinette Naddour is Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Veterans Legal Institute® where she oversees and has responsibility for the overall management of the firm including business development, outreach, public relations, marketing, strategic planning and a light legal caseload. She comes to VLI with a long-held passion to serve homeless and at-risk veterans and service members and has dedicated her career to that end. Veterans Legal Institute is a military-centric public interest law firm providing direct services and leveraging pro bono support, the Veterans Legal Institute is a unique nonprofit that provides free legal services to former and active service members. Ms. Naddour was an officer with the California State Guard for over 6 years. She served in the rank of Major both as a Marketing Officer assigned to Strategic Communications (STRATCOM) as well as reserve JAG Officer assigned to Legal Support Command. In the past, Ms. Naddour was a law lecturer at UCI School of Law for its Veterans Law Clinic.Ms. Naddour is a graduate of the 2018 Presidential Leadership Scholars Class, a prestigious program that serves as a catalyst for a diverse network of leaders brought together to collaborate and make a difference in the world as they learn about leadership through the lens of the presidential experiences of George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson. During her tenure in this program, she focused on the improvement and further development of mobile legal clinics for low income veterans, a project that is shared freely throughout the nation to promote additional services for veterans in need.Ms. Naddour was a two term Director at Large with the Orange County Bar Association, is a member of its Outreach and Pro Bono Committees and a director of the Orange County Women’s Lawyers Association. She is also an active supporter of the nuns at her Parish.Ms. Naddour is a member of the OC Veterans and Military Families Collaborative, former Chair of its Legal/ Re-Entry Working Group, and for a long period of time served as Vice Chair of its Steering Committee.
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