Nicole Austin-Hillery is the first Director and Counsel of the Brennan Center s Washington, D.C. office, which she opened in March 2008.

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1 Nancy Abudu Nancy Abudu is the Legal Director for the ACLU of Florida. She litigates cases in federal and state courts on a range of issues including voting rights, criminal justice, reproductive rights, free speech, and LGBT rights. Before coming to the ACLU of Florida, Nancy was Senior Staff Counsel with the ACLU s National Voting Rights Project in Atlanta for almost eight years. She also was a staff attorney with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, and was an associate with the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York. She has represented victims of domestic violence on behalf of the Legal Aid Society of New York in the East Harlem office, and has presented testimony before the United Nations on environmental justice and other human rights issues. Prior to moving to Miami, she was the Chair of the Georgia Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and served on the advisory board for Re-Entry Connection, Inc. (a holistic rehabilitation program for female ex-offenders). She was also co-chair of the Political Action Committee for the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys and served as a state legislative coordinator for Amnesty International USA. She is currently a Senior Fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program based in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. from Columbia University and her J.D. from Tulane Law School where she won the Most Outstanding Managing Editor Award for her work on the Tulane Environmental Law Journal. She is admitted to practice in Florida, Georgia, New York, the U.S. Supreme Court, and several other federal courts.

2 Nicole Austin-Hillery is the first Director and Counsel of the Brennan Center s Washington, D.C. office, which she opened in March In her role, she has overseen the growth and development of the Brennan Center s advocacy and policy development work in Washington. Ms. Austin-Hillery is the organization s chief liaison to Congress and the Administration. She provides both strategic and advocacy counsel ranging from legislative analysis to policy development. Ms. Austin-Hillery also serves as both a media spokesperson and frequent presenter on Brennan Center issues and has written opinion pieces for several publications including Roll Call, The Hill, The Root, CNN.Com and BillMoyers.Com and has offered commentary to the NY Times. She has significant litigation experience having practiced with the law firm of Mehri & Skalet, PLLC as part of the firm's civil rights employment class action practice and as the George N. Lindsay Civil Rights Law Fellow at the national office of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Ms. Austin-Hillery serves in a number of leadership roles including as an appointed member of the ABA Standing Committee on Election Law, Co-Chair of the ABA Criminal Law Section s Racial Justice and Ethnic Diversity Committee and as a Board member of the Washington Bar Association. Ms. Austin-Hillery is a graduate of the Howard University School of Law and Carnegie Mellon University.

3 Roger Clegg President and General Counsel, Center for Equal Opportunity Mr. Clegg writes, speaks, and conducts research on legal issues raised by the civil rights laws. The Center for Equal Opportunity is a conservative research and educational organization based in Falls Church, Virginia, that specializes in civil rights, immigration, and bilingual education issues. Mr. Clegg also is a contributing editor at National Review Online, and writes frequently for it and USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and other popular periodicals and law journals. From 1982 to 1993, Mr. Clegg held a number of positions at the U.S. Department of Justice, including Assistant to the Solicitor General, where he argued three cases before the United States Supreme Court, and the number-two official in the Civil Rights Division and Environment Division. From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Clegg was vice president and general counsel of the National Legal Center for the Public Interest, where he wrote and edited a variety of publications on legal issues of interest to business. He is a graduate of Rice University and Yale Law School. Mr. Clegg and his wife Joann live in Fairfax, Virginia.

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