Milan T. Pham, a founding member, received her JD from UNC Chapel Hill School of Law in May 1999. She was admitted to the Maryland State Bar in September 1999 and to the North Carolina State Bar in March 2001. Milan worked for Americans for a Fair Chance, a consortium of six national legal civil rights agencies, in developing the southern strategy to preserve affirmative action. Milan was the Director of the Orange County Human Rights and Relations Department where she focused on housing and employment discrimination related matters. In 2007, she became the founding Director of North Carolina Lawyers for Entrepreneurs Assistance Program (NC LEAP) of the North Carolina Bar Association Foundation. Under Milan’s direction, NC LEAP became a statewide program providing free legal services to low-wealth entrepreneurs across the life cycle of their businesses.

Milan is a member of the 2008-2010 Friday Fellowship class. She currently serves as a Board member for the following community organizations: Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina and Stone Circles at the Stone House.

As part of her service to her profession, Milan serves as an officer of the Durham Orange Women Attorneys, a board member of NC Legal Education Assistance Program, and she chairs a project of the Law Related Education Committee of the NC Bar Association.

Milan speaks Vietnamese and Spanish.