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1 TPC Digest 1 TPC Digest T his is the inaugural paper in the Lifetime Achievement in Counseling Series. This set of articles will present an annual interview with a seminal figure who has attained outstanding achievement in counseling over a career. We are hoping that from this series readers will better understand the evolution of the profession and be motivated to address current and future challenges described by the authors. he first interviewee is Theodore Remley, Jr., who currently holds the position of Professor of Counseling and is the Booth-Bricker Endowed Professor at the University of Holy Cross in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Remley received a Ph.D. in counselor education and supervision from the University of Florida and holds a J.D. degree from Catholic University in Washington, DC. Dr. Remley is a Fellow in the American Counseling Association and was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision. He was selected as a leader and featured in the book, Leaders and Legacies: Contributions to the Profession of Counseling , edited by West, Osborn, and Bubenzer (2003). Dr. Remley has authored or edited numerous textbooks and journal articles, most of which are related to law and ethics in counseling. His coauthored textbook with Dr. Barbara Herlihy, Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Counseling , is the most widely used ethics text in the counseling profession. In the area of professional advocacy, he was heavily involved in getting the first counseling licensure bill for counselors passed in Virginia in 1976. He has served on many counseling licensure boards and has chaired the boards in Virginia and Louisiana. He helped draft regulations for the District of Columbia board when it was first established, and has chaired the ethics committee for the boards in various states. He is the Founding President of the American Association of State Counseling Boards, the organization that provides a forum for counseling licensure boards in all states and jurisdictions to communicate with each other and work toward appropriate and fair regulation of the counseling profession. In the interview, Dr. Remley responds to several questions addressing his career, impact on counseling, and thoughts about the current and future state of the profession. He points to licensure in all 50 states, counseling program accreditation, global development and growth of the profession as some of the major accomplishments he has witnessed. Dr. Remley discusses his impact on professional identity development, as well as educating the general public about who counselors are and what they believe as two of his major contributions. He concludes the interview by identifying challenges currently facing counseling and his outlook on the profession’s future. Neal D. Gray is an Associate Professor at Lenoir-Rhyne University. Lindsay Kozak is a counselor at Crossroads Counseling Center. Correspondence can be mailed to Neal Gray, Lenoir-Rhyne University, LR Box 7409, 625 7th Avenue NE, Hickory, NC 28601, neal.gray@lr.edu .