The 2006 Supreme
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On Wednesday, Sept. 20, ACLU leaders
provided a preview at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington
D.C. of some of the biggest cases this term.
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After graduating from Harvard Law School and spending one year as law clerk to Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Shapiro joined the New York Civil Liberties Union in 1976. Shapiro has been the ACLU's Legal Director since 1993, and served as Associate Legal Director from 1987-1993. During that time, he has appeared as counsel or co-counsel on more than 200 ACLU briefs submitted to the United States Supreme Court. Shapiro is also an adjunct professor of constitutional law at Columbia Law School, and a frequent speaker and writer on civil liberties issues. |
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John Holdridge took the helm of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project in December of 2005. Prior to his appointment at the ACLU, Holdridge was a public defender in Connecticut's Capital Defense and Trial Services Unit and, before that, he spent 11 years as director of the Mississippi and Louisiana Capital Trial Assistance Project in New Orleans. He is a graduate of New York University School of Law and in 2001 received the National Legal Aid & Defender Association's Life in the Balance Achievement Award. |
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Dennis Parker joined the ACLU as the Director of the Racial Justice Project in June of 2006. Prior to joining the ACLU, Parker was the Chief of the Civil Rights Bureau in the Office of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. He spent 14 years at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Parker has also worked with the New York Legal Aid Society. He teaches Race, Poverty and Constitutional Law at Columbia University's School Law Institute and is a graduate of Middlebury College and Harvard Law School. |
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ACLU
Legal Director Steve Shapiro
John Holdridge, Director of
ACLU Capital Punishment Project
Dennis Parker, Director
of ACLU Racial Justice Program