Ira L. Foster is the managing attorney of the Georgia Legal Services Program’s Macon, Georgia office.
He graduated with honors from Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley, Georgia. He then attended graduate school at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, and earned his Juris Doctor degree from North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina.
Ira is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, the Macon Bar Association, the Houston County Bar Association, the Georgia Alliance of African American Attorneys, the National Bar Association, the National Black Lawyers, and the William Augustus Bootle Inn of Court.
His honors and awards include being selected as an American Bar Association Foundation Fellow, Macon Bar Association Lawyer of the Year in 2007, Fort Valley State University Alumni of the Year in Social Sciences, the Dublin Laurens County Black Festival Committee Citizen of the Year, Adopt A Role Model Program Big Brother of the Year, the State Bar of Georgia Supreme Court Justice Robert Benham Community Service Award, the Houston County NAACP 2009 Community Service Award, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. State of Georgia 2011 Fraternity Brother of the Year, and the 2015 State Bar of Georgia Access to Justice Committee Dan Bradley Award.
Ira has served as a board member of the Fort Valley State University Housing Foundation and the Fort Valley State University National Alumni Association. He currently serves as a board member of The Alpha Georgia Education Foundation, Inc., The Central Georgia United Way, and the Macon Bar Association. He is a life member of the NAACP, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., and the Fort Valley State University National Alumni Association.
He served as President of the Macon Bar Association for the 2015 to 2016 year.
Ira has represented numerous students in disciplinary and special education cases. He has authored two articles for the State Bar of Georgia Child Advocacy Newsletter on education issues and co authored an article for the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. national magazine addressing the School Dropout to Prison Pipeline issue.
He has also presented workshops across the state of Georgia, including in Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Waycross, Valdosta, Albany, Macon, Norcross, and McDonough, on the School Dropout to Prison Pipeline issue.
