NAACP Legal Defense Fund : Defend, Educate, Empower

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"The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is simply the best civil rights law firm in American history." -- President Obama

Board of Directors

National Officers

  • Gerald S. Adolph
    Co-Chair
    Former Principal, Strategy&

  • Sherrilyn Ifill
    President and Director-Counsel
    NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc.

  • Janai Nelson
    Associate Director-Counsel
    NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc.

  • James Castillo
    Treasurer
    Former VP, United Parcel Service

  • David W. Mills
    Co-Chair
    Professor of Practice and Senior Lecturer, Stanford Law School Director of Clinical Education at Stanford (Retired)

  • Stephen B. Pfeiffer
    Secretary
    Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright US L.L.P.

National Board of Directors

  • William J. Bynum
    CEO
    Hope Enterprise Corporation/Hope Credit Union

  • Eric H. Holder Jr.
    Partner
    Covington & Burling LLP/82nd Attorney General of the United States

  • Adebayo Ogunlesi
    Chairman and Managing Partner
    Global Infrastructure Partners

  • Judith I. Byrd
    President
    Byrd Retail Group, LLC

  • David E. Kendall
    Partner
    Williams & Connolly

  • Luis Penalver
    Partner
    Corporate Group Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP

  • Clifford P. Case III
    Of Counsel
    Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP

  • Michael R. Klein
    Co-Founder & Chairman
    The Sunlight Foundation

  • Michele Roberts
    Executive Director
    National Basketball Players Association

  • Robyn Coles
    CEO
    TRATE Enterprises

  • Kim Koopersmith
    Partner & Chairperson
    Akin Gump

  • Judith McCartin Scheide
    Former Development Officer
    Princeton University

  • Damien Dwin
    Managing Partner
    Brightwood Capital Advisors

  • William Lighten
    Managing Director
    Eland Capital Partners

  • Jonathan Soros
    CEO
    JS Capital Management, LLC

  • Gregory Evans
    Managing Partner
    McGuire Woods Los Angeles

  • Cecilia S. Marshall
    Civic Leader

  • Angela Vallot
    President
    VallotKarp Consulting, LLC.

  • Laurie Robinson Haden
    Senior Vice President & Assistant General Counsel
    CBS Corporation

Senior Directors

  • Anthony G. Amsterdam

  • Jetta N. Jones

  • Daniel L. Rabinowitz

  • Eleanor S. Applewhaite

  • Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.

  • Paul N. Roth

  • Dr. Mary Frances Berry

  • Tonya Lewis Lee

  • Judith T. Sapers

  • Patrick A. Bradford

  • John D. Maguire

  • Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr.

  • Toni G. Fay

  • Gabriella E. Morris

  • John W. Walker

  • Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

  • Richard M. Moss

  • George Wallerstein

  • Nannette B. Gibson

  • Lawrence Newman

  • Theodore V. Wells, Jr.

  • Louis Harris

  • Martin D. Payson

  • Andrew J. Young, Jr.

  • Anna Faith Jones

  • Robert O. Preyer

Co-Chairs Emeriti

  • William M. Lewis, Jr.

  • Martin D. Payson

  • Theodore V. Wells, Jr.

Directors Emeriti

  • Billye Suber Aaron

  • Ronald T. Gault

  • C. Carl Randolph

  • Alice M. Beasley

  • Lucy Durr Hackney

  • Gilbert T. Ray

  • Anita Lyons Bond

  • Charles V. Hamilton

  • Theodore M. Shaw

  • William H. Brown III

  • Patricia L. Irvin

  • Wayman F. Smith III

  • Talbot D'Alemberte

  • Elaine R. Jones

  • Michael I. Sovern

  • Peter J. DeLuca

  • Quincy Jones

  • Bonnie Kayatta Steingart

  • Anthony S. Downs

  • Caroline B. Kennedy

  • Jay Topkis

  • Marian Wright Edelman

  • George E. Marshall, Jr.

  • E. Thomas Williams, Jr.

  • Norman C. Francis

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