Monday, June 3, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Janell Byrd-Chichester as Director of LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute. Janell is returning to LDF after having previously served as Assistant Counsel from 1987-2001. During her previous LDF tenure, she litigated school desegregation and affirmative action cases, headed up our […]
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has welcomed Dr. OiYan Poon as the Education Equity Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute, LDF’s multidisciplinary research and advocacy center launched in 2015. Dr. Poon is a renowned community-engaged researcher, scholar, and educator whose groundbreaking research focuses on the racial politics of Asian Americans, education access, affirmative action, and […]
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced the appointment of Demetria L. McCain as the Director of Policy. In this role, she will lead the organization’s policy team and its diverse policy advocacy portfolio, including working with senior leadership to set the strategic direction for the organization’s legislative, policy and advocacy work in criminal justice, […]
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 | news
(Washington, DC) The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) applauds the U.S. Senate’s vote this afternoon to confirm Paul Watford to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Ninth Circuit is the nation’s largest circuit court. Its jurisdiction covers 62 million residents of California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, Montana, […]
Thursday, October 28, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), announced that Claude Johnson, a development executive who has spent decades fundraising for higher education institutions and other high-level non-profit clients, has been named Chief Development Officer for the nation’s leading civil rights law organization. Mr. Johnson, who most recently served as the Chief Advancement […]
Wednesday, April 5, 2023 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced the addition of three new members to its Board of Directors: Cecilia Marshall, the granddaughter of LDF founder Thurgood Marshall and Director of External Partnerships at Partnership for Education Advancement; Colleen Foster, a former senior financial services director at Goldman Sachs; and Cynthia Patton, General Counsel and Secretary […]
Monday, November 16, 2015 | news
Carlton T. Mayers II joins the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) as Policy Counsel for its Policing Reform Campaign, where he will advance LDF’s efforts to effect responsible and unbiased policing by working with local communities and stakeholders. The Policing Reform campaign, which is housed in LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute, addresses the […]
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 | news
Calvin Jerreau Fortenberry is the Director of Communications for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund & Educational Fund. Joining in 2014, Calvin has held Director of Communications roles for both the Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) working on government responses to poverty through affordable housing […]
Friday, June 23, 2023 | news
Today, Dekalb County District Attorney Shelby Boston announced that her office is withdrawing from all cases involving protestors who were recently arrested for opposing the Atlanta Training Center widely known as Cop City. These cases now fall under the sole purview of the Georgia Attorney General’s office. In response to this development, Legal Defense Fund […]
Wednesday, August 4, 2021 | news
Kim Koopersmith Angela Vallot The Board of Directors of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today announced that Angela Vallot, Co-Founder and Partner at VallotKarp Consulting, and Kim Koopersmith, Chairperson of the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, will become the new co-chairs of LDF’s Board of Directors. This […]
