2014 Convention Speakers
Featured Speakers
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Professor Theodore M. Shaw
Representative Robert C. "Bobby" Scott
Governor Theodore "Ted" Strickland
Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton
Confirmed Convention Speakers
Nicole Austin-Hillery, Director and Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law
John H. Beisner, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Nicole Berner, Associate General Counsel, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
F. Paul Bland, Jr., Executive Director, Public Justice
Fernando A. Bohorquez, Jr., Partner, BakerHostetler
Mary L. Bonauto, Civil Rights Project Director, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)
Caitlin Borgmann, Professor of Law, The City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law
Steven G. Bradbury, Partner, Dechert LLP
Khiara M. Bridges, Associate Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law; Associate Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
Sue Briggum, Vice President, Federal Public Affairs, Waste Management
*David M. Brodsky, Principal, Brodsky ADR LLC
Kimberly Brown, Associate Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
Lisa Brown, Vice President and General Counsel, Georgetown University
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Daniel P. S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History, Harvard University
*Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
Devon Carbado, Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Terrance D. Carroll, Associate General Counsel, SCL Health System
Juan Cartagena, President and General Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Myron M. Cherry, Founder and Managing Partner, Myron M. Cherry & Associates, LLC
Danielle Citron, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Shanna Cleveland, Senior Attorney, Conservation Law Foundation
Kathleen Clyde, State Representative, Ohio House of Representatives, 75th District
Eric L. Cramer, Managing Shareholder, Berger & Montague, P.C.
Gilda Daniels, Associate Professor, University of Baltimore School of Law
Walter Dellinger, Partner, Appellate Practice, O'Melveny & Myers
Allan B. Diamond, Partner, Diamond McCarthy LLP
Garrett Epps, Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
Catherine Fisk, Chancellor's Professor of Law, University of California Irvine School of Law
*Judge Nancy Gertner, Judge (Ret.), U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts; Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School
Jamie S. Gorelick, Partner, WilmerHale
Siobhan Gorman, Intelligence Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
Fatima Goss Graves, Vice President for Education and Employment, National Women’s Law Center
Michael Gottlieb, Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Kent Greenfield, Professor of Law and Dean’s Research Scholar, Boston College Law School
*Linda Greenhouse, Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Marc I. Gross, Managing Partner, Pomerantz LLP
Sarita Gupta, Executive Director, Jobs With Justice
*Reuben A. Guttman, Director, Grant & Eisenhofer P.A.; Adjunct Professor and Senior Fellow, Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution, Emory University School of Law
Honorable Nathan L. Hecht, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas
Gail Heriot, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law; Commissioner, United States Commission on Civil Rights
*Dennis Herrera, City Attorney, San Francisco
Thomas M. Hilbink, Senior Program Officer, U.S. Programs, Open Society Foundations
Dale Ho, Director, ACLU Voting Rights Project
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)
Samuel Issacharoff, Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law
Jameel Jaffer, Deputy Legal Director, ACLU Foundation; Director, ACLU Center for Democracy
Wendy Kaminer, Author, Lawyer, and Commentator
Roberta (Robbie) Kaplan, Partner, Paul, Weiss LLP
Pamela Karlan, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice
Keenan R. Keller, Senior Democratic Counsel, Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives
Deborah P. Kelly, Partner, Dickstein Shapiro LLP
Adam T. Klein, Partner, Outten & Golden LLP
Scott A. Kronland, Partner, Altshuler Berzon LLP
Scott Lemieux, Professor of Political Science, The College of St. Rose
James Lindgren, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Adam Lioz, Counsel, Demos
Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor, Slate
Honorable Goodwin Liu, Associate Justice, California Supreme Court
Emma Llansó, Director, Free Expression Project, Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)
Suzette Malveaux, Professor of Law and Former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America
Gregory A. Markel, Partner, Cadwalader
Martha Ann Mazzone, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Fidelity Investments
Honorable Theodore A. McKee, Chief Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Cyrus Mehri, Founding Partner, Mehri & Skalet, PLLC
Louise Melling, Deputy Legal Director, ACLU; Director, ACLU Center for Liberty
Gillian Metzger, Vice Dean and Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Center for Constitutional Governance, Columbia Law School
Jon D. Michaels, Anne Urowsky Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Arthur R. Miller, University Professor, New York University School of Law; Chairman, New York University Sports & Society Program
Alan B. Morrison, Lerner Family Associate Dean for Public Interest and Public Service Law, The George Washington University Law School
Sharmila L. Murthy, Assistant Professor, Suffolk University Law School; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Daria Neal, Deputy Chief, Federal Coordination and Compliance Section, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice
Clark Neily, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice
Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
Robert C. Post, Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Scott A. Powell, Partner, Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton
Neomi Rao, Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
Nick Rathod, Executive Director, American Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange (ALICE)
Julie Rikelman, Litigation Director, Center for Reproductive Rights
Alfreda Robinson, Associate Dean for Trial Advocacy, Professorial Lecturer in Law, and Co-Director of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program, George Washington University Law School
Honorable Chase T. Rogers, Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel and Policy Advisor, American Civil Liberties Union, Washington Legislative Office
Thomas A. Saenz, President and General Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
Ryan W. Scott, Associate Professor, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University
Miriam Seifter, Visiting Researcher and Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Joanna Shepherd, Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law
Patrice Lumumba Simms, Associate Professor, Howard University School of Law
Johnathan Smith, Assistant Counsel of the Economic Justice Group, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)
Alessandra Soler, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona
Tim Sparapani, Vice President of Law, Policy and Government Relations, App Developers Alliance
Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Michael Strautmanis, Vice President of Corporate Citizenship, Walt Disney Company
*Harry P. Susman, Partner, Susman Godfrey LLP
Peter Swire, Nancy J. and Lawrence P. Huang Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, in the Scheller College of Business
Honorable David S. Tatel, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Associate Professor, Stetson University College of Law
Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School
Arturo Vargas, Executive Director, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO)
Paul R. Verkuil, Chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States
Stephen I. Vladeck, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Scholarship, American University Washington College of Law
Jo-Ann Wallace, President and CEO, National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA)
Honorable Eric T. Washington, Chief Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Ronald Weich, Dean, University of Baltimore School of Law
Wendy R. Weiser, Director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law
Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen
Russell R. Wheeler, Visiting Fellow, Governance Studies Program, Brookings Institution; President, Governance Institute; Adjunct Professor, American University Washington College of Law
Maya Wiley, Counsel to the Mayor, City of New York
William Yeomans, Fellow in Law and Government, American University Washington College of Law
*member of the ACS Board of Directors