Lisa Brown is the Executive Director of the American Constitution Society. She came to ACS from Relman & Associates, a civil rights firm in Washington, D.C. Lisa was Counsel to the Vice President of the United States from September 1999 through January 2001, and Deputy Counsel from April 1997 through August 1999. In addition to advising the Vice President and his staff on legal matters, she handled civil rights issues, served on the Executive Board of the President's Committee for Employment of People with Disabilities, and worked closely with the Vice President's Domestic Policy Office on a variety of legislative initiatives. Lisa was an Attorney Advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice from June 1996 until April 1997. Prior to her government service, Lisa was a Partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm Shea & Gardner, where her practice included both litigation and transactional work. In addition, Ms. Brown did extensive pro bono work, including writing briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous federal circuit courts addressing issues affecting persons with disabilities under The Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988; serving as the court-appointed Special Master under the consent decree in Dyson v. Denny's, Inc. (D. Md.) to review appeals by rejected claimants; and co-editing Cold, Harsh and Unending Resistance: The District of Columbia Government's Hidden War Against Its Poor and Its Homeless (Nov. 22, 1993), a 350-page report by the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless on litigation over the District's provision of social services. Ms. Brown graduated Magna Cum Laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in Political Economy in 1982. She received her law degree with Honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1986. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable John C. Godbold on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Montgomery, Alabama. She then had a one-year fellowship as a Staff Attorney at the Center for Law in the Public Interest in Los Angeles, California.