The newly appointed director of a fledgling D.C. government agency charged with ensuring the District’s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act has a mountain of work ahead of her, members of the disabled activist community said Wednesday.

Mayor Adrian Fenty named Eve Hill, a former disability-rights lawyer with the U.S. Department of Justice, as the first director of the new Office of Disability Rights. Hill most recently served as executive director of the Los Angeles-based Disability Rights Legal Center.