Lois M. Feuerle, PhD, JD, holds a law degree from the New York University School of Law and a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures with a minor in Applied Linguistics from the University of Kansas. From 1996 through 2000 she was the Coordinator of Court Interpreting Services for the State of New York and from 2000 until 2008 she was Coordinator of Court Interpreter Certification, Testing and Training for the State of Oregon.
After graduation from NYU law school, she served as law clerk to the Honorable Gary S. Stein, Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and to Judge Geoffrey Gaulkin of the NJ Appellate Division. She served for five years as Coordinator of the Translation and Interpreting Studies Program at New York University SCE, where she also taught German-to-English translation. Lois is certified by the American Translators Association for German-to-English translation. She was one of the developers of the New Jersey German Court Interpreting Exam and has been a grader for NJ since 1998. She served three terms on the NAJIT Board of Directors and was recently elected to the Board of the American Translators Association, where she also chairs the Honors and Awards Committee. She served two terms on the Oregon Governor’s Commission on Healthcare Interpreters, the body charged with establishing a certification process for medical interpreters in Oregon. She is a frequent presenter and consultant on topics relating to court interpreting, interpreter ethics and legal translation and has presented at both national and international conferences in the US, Germany, Mexico, Canada, Australia and Belgium.
Lois is an author of The Language of Justice: Training Manual and The Language of Justice: Exercises and Role Plays, as well as the Breaking Silence: Interpreting for Victim Services workbook, glossary, and training manual.
