Speakers

Sally Balch Hurme, JD

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Sally Hurme is a Senior Project Manager with AARP Financial Security focusing on consumer fraud, financial exploitation, capacity, and surrogate decision-making issues. She is a researcher, writer and lecturer on guardianship issues, and has participated in shaping many of the legislative reforms in guardianship procedures. She received her B.A. degree from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, and her J.D. degree cum laude from the Washington College of Law, Washington, DC.

Prior to coming to AARP fifteen years ago, Hurme was an assistant staff director for both ABA Commissions on Legal Problems of the Elderly and on Mental and Physical Disability Law. While at the ABA she authored, Steps to Enhance Guardianship Monitoring, a definitive look at monitoring practices that led to changes in court supervision of guardians. She was a member of the US State Department Delegation to the Hague Conference which drafted the international convention on protection of incapacitated adults. Her recent research has focused on the rights of incapacitated persons to retain their right to vote, certification of guardians, and interstate and international jurisdictional issues in guardianship cases.

Ms. Hurme serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Guardianship Certification. She has been instrumental in developing dual certification with states through state-specific components to the Registered Guardian certification. She has been a member of the National Guardianship Association since 1990 where she has contributed to the Registered Guardian and Master Guardian certification development. She is an advisor to the National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Law on interstate guardianship jurisdiction. Hurme is also a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the Virginia Bar Association. Hurme is a member of the Inova Mt. Vernon Hospital Bioethics Committee. She teaches Elder Law as an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC.