Hilary Moore

Hilary Moore was raised in Michigan, but attended Auburn University, in Auburn, AL, graduating Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in International Business and Finance in 2002. She then attended the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University, graduating cum laude in 2005. Her law school honors included Law Review, Moot Court invitee, and CALI Award winner for Advanced Litigation Drafting.

Hilary was licensed to practice law in Tennessee in 2005, and practiced insurance and medical malpractice defense at the Chattanooga firm of Spears, Moore, Rebman & Williams. She was licensed to practice law in South Carolina in 2006, and practiced in the areas of workers' compensation defense, mass torts, and expert witness preparation at the Greenville firm, Gallivan, White & Boyd. She was licensed to practice law in North Carolina in 2011, and then turned her focus to part-time, pro bono practice. She was first sworn as an Assistant District Attorney in the 4th Prosecutorial District of North Carolina (Onslow County) in 2011, where she worked in Superior Court, focusing primarily on homicides and sexual offenses. In 2013, she began pro bono work with Legal Aid of North Carolina, in their Lawyer on the Line Program and their statewide legal aid clinics, focusing on family law (custody and divorce), Medicaid, and simple wills. She continued working in conjunction with Legal Aid of North Carolina until 2019. In the spring of 2017, based upon her experience as a prosecutor, Hilary was hired as an adjunct professor of Criminology at Eastern Mennonite University.

In 2020, while continuing to teach for EMU, Hilary obtained her Virginia license and began practicing part-time, pro bono with Blue Ridge Legal Services, located in Harrisonburg, VA, where her work focused on consumer credit and bankruptcy. However, with three elementary-age children at home during the Covid pandemic, continued legal work became untenable. Therefore, since 2020 Hilary's work has focused on teaching for EMU (which has extended into UG Criminal Justice and adjunct graduate teaching - Restorative Justice - at EMU's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding), as well as volunteerism in the local criminal justice reform community, service on the Board of Directors for multiple non-profit organizations, and freelance writing.

Since 2023, Hilary has served on the Board of Directors for Reaching Out From Within, a Kansas non-profit that provides curriculum and support programs for incarcerated individuals, helping prepare them for successful reintegration into society when they are released from prison. This non-profit aims to expand into numerous states, including Virginia. Hilary is currently serving as Chair of the Governance Committee in that organization.

Since 2024, Hilary has also served as a member of Eastern State Penitentiary's Collaboratory for Justice Education, which is a collection of criminal justice educators who work with the Eastern State Penitentiary Historical Site staff to generate innovative solutions for understanding societal issues involving incarceration, and create impactful tools for educators and communities to construct a more equitable justice system.

In her free time, Hilary is a freelance writer (publications can be found in the attached CV); a skater (jammer) for the Rocktown Rollers (Harrisonburg's women's flat track roller derby team); and the owner/operator of a small apiary, Three Peaks Farm d/b/a Apiary Apothecary. She also takes the opportunity each year to Color Commentate for EMU sports, including men's and women's soccer and basketball. Hilary has been married for nearly 20 years and has three children. As if life isn't busy enough, Hilary still contemplates returning to school to obtain a Ph.D. in Criminology or Forensic Psychology. Learning is never-ending!