Board: Board Alumni

Cliff Sloan

Cliff Sloan is currently a Professor from Practice at Georgetown University Law Center. Sloan has litigated cases at all levels of federal and state courts, including seven U.S. Supreme Court arguments. In 2015, Sloan was appointed to the ACS board of directors and served as board chair from 2015 to 2017.

Sloan has served in high-ranking positions in all three branches of the federal government, including as Associate Counsel to the President, Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure and Assistant to the Solicitor General. He also has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s Advisory Committee on Procedures.

Sloan has held major media jobs, including publisher of Slate magazine and general counsel of Washington Post Newsweek Interactive. He is author of "The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made" and co-author of “The Great Decision, Marbury v. Madison.”

Sloan also currently serves on the boards of the Southern Center for Human Rights and the National Security Archive.

Sloan’s appellate work has been recognized by The National Law Journal, and he has received the Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award from the Southern Center for Human Rights, the Light of Justice Award from the Texas Defender Service, and the Catalyst Award for Legal Advocate of the Year from The Arc.

Sloan received a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

Marc Seltzer

Marc M. Seltzer is a partner at Susman Godfrey L.L.P. and is the resident head of the firm’s Los Angeles, California office. He has litigated complex business cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States. In 2016, Seltzer was appointed to the ACS board of directors.

Seltzer is co-author of treatises on California Federal Civil Rules and California’s antitrust laws. He has written and lectured on complex litigation matters. His articles include Choosing Between Class and Derivative Actions, Measures of Damages in Private Actions for Violations of the Federal Securities Laws: The Basic Rules and Selected Problems, and Shareholders’ Derivative Suits in Contests for Corporate Control.

Seltzer has been honored with the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles’ Bruce I. Hochman-Maimonides Torch of Justice Award and the American ORT Jurisprudence Award. Lawdragon named him one of the “500 Leading Plaintiff’s Lawyers,” and one of the “100 Lawyers You Need To Know in Securities Litigation.” Law360 named him a “Class Action MVP” and “Competition MVP,” and he has been named a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation. He has also been named to the "International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists."

Seltzer also serves on the board of trustees of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and on the board of directors of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, the National Equal Justice Library, the American Friends of Hebrew University (Western Region), Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library and the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute. He is a life member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Seltzer received his J.D. from UCLA and his B.A. from University of California at Berkeley.

Philippa Scarlett

Philippa Scarlett served as Deputy Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator and Senior Counselor for the Executive Office of the President during the Obama Administration. In that role, she developed and coordinated intellectual property enforcement policy across the federal government, including policy to support the creative and innovative industries such as the film, music, broadcasting, sports, publishing, tech, pharma, and fashion industries. In 2017, Scarlett was appointed to the ACS board of directors.

During her work with the Obama Administration, Scarlett also developed and coordinated policy to combat cyber-enabled trade secret theft, online commercial piracy, and the global trade in counterfeit products and related consumer protection and supply chain integrity challenges.

Before her service at the White House, Scarlett served as Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. As a member of DOJ's senior leadership team, her portfolio included management of policy as well as major civil and criminal enforcement matters of the Civil Rights Division; Antitrust Division; Access to Justice Office; and intellectual property matters from across the agency.

Previously, Scarlett was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice consisted of high-stakes litigation in trial and appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, on a broad range of topics such as product liability, mass torts, constitutional law, antitrust and intellectual property. Her pro bono practice included litigating high-profile matters involving voting rights, affirmative action, and poverty law. She was featured by the National Law Journal as among the "Top Minority 40 Under 40 Attorneys" in the country for her work.

Scarlett clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court and for the Hon. Ann C. Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Previously, she worked in DOJ’s Criminal Division, where she developed and managed U.S. rule of law and criminal justice assistance programs in Colombia, Ecuador, Rwanda, and South Africa.

She received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University, her master's from Harvard University, and her law degree from Columbia Law School. She also studied at the Free University of Berlin, Germany as a German Academic Exchange Award (DAAD) recipient.

Ngozi Nezianya

Ngozi Joel Nezianya is an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. In 2016, Nezianya was appointed to the ACS board of directors.

Nezianya previously worked as a Senior Research Analyst at the Democracy Alliance, where he conducted due diligence and program evaluations on public policy institutes, community organizing groups and other issue advocacy and civic engagement organizations.

Nezianya was previously a teaching fellow and acting head of the Leadership Department at African Leadership Academy.

He also taught leadership and entrepreneurship courses to equip students with skills to build and lead effective teams, identify market opportunities and manage and grow nonprofit and for-profit enterprises.

Nezianya received his J.D. cum laude and his M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and his B.A. in political science from Yale University.

William P. Marshall

William Marshall is the Kenan Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina. He teaches courses on civil procedure, constitutional law, election law, First Amendment, federal courts, freedom of religion, the law of the presidency and media law. In 2012, Marshall was appointed to the ACS board of directors.

Marshall was Deputy White House Counsel and Deputy Assistant to the President during the Clinton Administration. He has also served as the Solicitor General of the State of Ohio, and as Special Assistant Attorney General in Minnesota. He has been a guest professor at Boston University, George Washington University, Case Western University, Northwestern University, DePaul University, University of Connecticut and the College of William and Mary.

Marshall is the author of “Cases And Materials On Federal Courts.” His published articles include: Actually We Should Wait: Evaluating the Obama Administration's Commitment to Unilateral Executive-Branch Action; Bad Statutes Make Bad Law: Hobby Lobby v. Burwell; Abstention, Separation of Powers, and Recasting the Meaning of Judicial Restraint; The Constitutionality of Campaign Finance Regulation: Should Differences in a State's Political History and Culture Matter?; and National Healthcare and American Constitutional Culture.

Marshall received his J.D. from the University of Chicago, and his B.A. in history and religious thought from the University of Pennsylvania.

Hon. Tim Lewis (Ret.)

Judge Timothy K. Lewis is the co-chair of the Schnader, Attorneys at Law ADR Practice Group. He works as a mediator, arbitrator, settlement counselor, and trial and appellate practitioner. In 2016, Lewis was appointed to the ACS board of directors.

Lewis was previously the co-chair of the Schnader Appellate Practice Group. During his career on the bench, Lewis served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He also served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Lewis is national chair of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution’s Diversity Task Force and co-chair of the National Right to Counsel Committee. He also serves on the board of advisors for the Georgetown University Law Center’s Supreme Court Institute and the Constitution Project. He is a fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, a member of the AAA Council of Board Committees, the CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, and the Interbranch Commission for Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness.

Lewis was selected by Best Lawyers as the "2015 Lawyer of the Year" in arbitration for Washington, DC, and Lawdragon recognized him as one of the "Lawdragon 500 Leading Judges in America.” Since 2010 he has been recognized annually in The Best Lawyers in America for his work in Administrative/Regulatory Law, Appellate Law, Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, and Mediation from 2010 to 2018. He has been awarded the American Arbitration Association’s Outstanding Director Award, Duquesne University School of Law’s Outstanding Achievement Award. The Legal Intelligencer selected him as one of the "Diverse Attorneys of the Year" in 2015. The Pennsylvania Bar Association awarded him the Minority Bar Committee Award of Achievement.

Lewis received his J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law and his B.A. from Tufts University.