Mr. Levy was born in New Orleans in August of 1945, in the shadow of the Holocaust and the inauspicious beginning of the nuclear age. Surrounded by the evil and ugliness of Jim Crow, he managed to escape to Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he graduated in 1967. He then obtained a law degree from Boston University in 1972.

After wandering the country as a hippie with a law degree, Mr. Levy landed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he met the woman who became his wife and law partner. They opened a law firm together, and not long thereafter, in 1980, began working with Marcia Lowry, who was then at the ACLU, on the first statewide class action on behalf of foster children who had been taken by the state and were neglected in the state’s foster care system. In 1983, they negotiated a consent decree. 22 years later, New Mexico finally achieved compliance with the decree.

When ABC was being established under Marcia Lowry's leadership, he was honored to join the initial Board and has remained on the Board for more than a decade. He is proud of ABC's success in providing a second chance at being part of a family for tens of thousands of children who suffered the wounds of abuse or neglect.