Grand Hyatt Washington Thank You for Your Support of Udc Law!

11.14.19

UDC LAW GALA

GRAND HYATT WASHINGTON THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF UDC LAW!

I am delighted to be sharing this evening with you. Our annual gala is the law school’s primary opportunity to raise much needed funding for student scholarships and summer fellowships. Your presence this evening helps to ensure that UDC Law will continue to innovate, inspire, and lead in legal education.

As you will read further in the program, tonight we honor four legal legends. My gratitude to the Ogletree family for allowing UDC Law to name an award after Charles J. Ogletree Jr. From this night forward, the Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Champion of Justice Award will be given annually to individuals who are using their platform and position to promote social justice and equality. It is given in recognition of the profound contributions “Tree” made to the cause of justice in this country. I can think of no better people to bestow this honor on than tonight’s awardees – Sherrilyn Ifill and Edgar and Jean Camper Cahn. The remarkable contributions of each are detailed in the pages that follow.

As the only public law school in the District of Columbia, and as an HBCU committed to opening the legal profession to groups traditionally underrepresented at the bar, UDC Law trains students to promote justice, value diversity, and interact effectively with people from a range of racial, social, economic, and ethnic backgrounds. Tonight, you will hear from two students who exemplify the rich legacy that is UDC Law as they introduce one of tonight’s awards.

In the decades since its founding, UDC Law has successfully graduated thousands of students while providing life-changing legal services to countless low-income District residents. The school has attracted a stellar faculty of experienced attorneys and scholars. Our staff is multi-talented and deeply committed to the mission. And, our graduates are thriving as attorneys at all levels of government and in practice, as judges, and as law school deans and professors in the Washington region and beyond. As former Attorney General Eric Holder said at last year’s UDC Law Gala, “We need lawyers trained in the UDC Law model now more than ever.”

Thank you for your support of our remarkable institution.

With warmest regards,

Renée McDonald Hutchins TONIGHT’S EVENTS FPO CHARLES J. OGLETREE, JR.

Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. is a prominent legal theorist who has earned an international reputation for taking a hard look at complex issues of law. Over his five-decades-long career, he has worked to secure for all the equal rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

Professor Ogletree is the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and the Founder and former Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. He once also served as the director for Harvard Law’s clinical programs. Over the course of his illustrious career, he has authored several ground breaking books on race and justice including The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education (W.W. Norton & Company, 2004). Professor Ogletree earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees with distinction from Stanford University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa. He holds his law degree from Harvard Law School.

Professor Ogletree began his legal career at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, gaining a reputation for a formidable courtroom presence. While in the District, Professor Ogletree also began his now decades-long connection to the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law. Professor Ogletree taught at UDC Law’s predecessor institution (Antioch Law School). He also served as a member of the University of the District of Columbia Board of Trustees from 1999 through 2006. In 2000, he was elected Chairman of the Board, and held the position until his departure. As an advocate for improving educational opportunities for students in need, he has established scholarships at both the undergraduate campus and at the law school. He has also been a frequent participant or speaker at law school events, including a 50th Anniversary celebration of Brown v. Bd. of Education with Dorothy Height, Randall Robinson, and others.

Professor Ogletree is a past recipient of the prestigious ABA Spirit of Excellence Award; has been named as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America by the National Law Journal; and has been named by Ebony Magazine as one of the 100+ Most Influential Black Americans for the past 13 years. He was the recipient of the first ever Rosa Parks Civil Rights Award given by the City of Boston; the Hugo A. Bedau Award given by the Massachusetts Anti-Death Penalty Coalition; and Morehouse College’s Gandhi, King, Ikeda Community Builders Prize. He has also received honorary doctorates from several universities and colleges including Cambridge College, Wilberforce University, the University of Miami, the New England School of Law, Lincoln College, Tougaloo College, Mount Holyoke College and Amherst College.

About the Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Champion of Justice Award

From 1993 to 2004, Elaine R. Jones served as the President and Director-Counsel of LDF, and the first woman to do so. She brought with her vast experience as a litigator and civil rights activist, as well as a passion for fairness and equality that dates back to her childhood.

Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Ms. Jones learned about the realities of racism and the importance of idealism from her mother, a college-educated school teacher, and her father, a Pullman porter and a member of the nation’s first black trade union. From the age of eight, she knew she wanted to be a lawyer and to commit her life to the pursuit of equal justice.

After graduating with honors in political science from Howard University, Ms. Jones joined the Peace Corps and became one of the first African Americans to serve in Turkey. This began a long series of “firsts” in her career. She later became the first black woman to graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law, and subsequently the first African American to serve on the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association. Ms. Jones was invited to join one of Wall Street’s most prestigious firms after her graduation in 1970. She turned it down to pursue the goal she had chosen in her youth, and instead joined the Legal Defense Fund’s staff.

In her early years at LDF, Ms. Jones continued to blaze trails, becoming one of the first African American women to defend death row inmates. Only two years out of law school, she was counsel of record in Furman v. Georgia, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that abolished the death penalty in 37 states. During this period, she also argued numerous employment discrimination cases, including class actions against some of the nation’s largest employers. UDC LAW PRESENTERS

NINA EGBUTA

Nina Egbuta is a first generation Nigerian- American, born and raised in New York. She attended college at the University at Albany (SUNY) (c/o 2014) and majored in Political Science, with a minor in Criminal Justice and a concentration in Public Law. After college, Nina worked as a paralegal in the New York State legislature, and then at the Legal-Aid Society, Juvenile Rights Practice in Bronx, NY. She is currently a second-year law student at UDC David A. Clarke School of Law and the President of the Black law Students Association. After graduation, she intends on practicing in the District of Columbia and Maryland.

LAFONDA WILLIS

The Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Champion of Justice Award is presented annually to individuals who are using their position and platform to promote social justice and equality throughout the United States and abroad. Recipients of the award exemplify the same values embodied by Professor Ogletree and UDC Law’s commitment to public service, diversity, and social justice. The Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Champion of Justice Award is presented annually to individuals who are using their position and platform to promote social justice and equality throughout the United States and abroad. Recipients of the award exemplify the same values embodied by Professor Ogletree and UDC Law’s commitment to public service, diversity, and social justice. JEAN CAMPER & EDGAR CAHN

Edgar and Jean Camper Cahn co-founded the Antioch School of Law, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law’s predecessor and the first law school in the United States to educate law students primarily through clinical training in legal services to the poor. Together they served as co-deans from 1971 to 1980. In 1997, they received the Association of American Law School’s William Pincus Clinical Award for “Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Legal Education.” In 2009, they received the National Legal Aid and Defender Association’s Charles Dorsey Award for extraordinary and dedicated service to the equal justice community and to organizations that promote expanding and improving access to justice for low-income people.

The Cahns’ insistence that the poor be guaranteed legal counsel in civil cases was indeed new and radical. The piece impressed a number of figures in the Lyndon Johnson administration, especially Sargent Shriver, head of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO).

Jean and Edgar co-authored The War on Poverty: A Civilian Perspective, 73 Yale L.J. 1317 (1964), which provided the blueprint for the National Legal Services. Sargent Shriver, Director of President Kennedy’s Office of Economic Opportunity, credited it as the “genesis of legal services.” It is one of Yale Law Journal’s most cited articles.

The Cahns are generally acknowledged as co-founders of the Legal Services Program. Professor Cahn, working as Sargent Shriver’s Executive Assistant, and Jean Cahn, brought over as a Consultant from the State Department to initiate the program, negotiated with the American Bar Association for its support, made the first grants and assembled the first National Advisory Committee. In Washington, D.C., Professor Cahn founded the Time Dollar Youth Court, in which teen juries judge cases of teens arrested for the first time for non- violent offenses. The Court, originally housed at UDC Law, hears 15 to 30 cases each week, approximately 800 cases per year. Professor Cahn was official advisor to the National Blue Ribbon Commission on Restructuring Juvenile Justice in the District of Columbia and is now Vice Chair of the Mayor’s Juvenile Advocacy Group.

With the publication in 1968 of Hunger, USA, and litigation he instituted, Professor Cahn initiated both the preeminent exposé of hunger in America and the first major national drive against it.

In 1969, after years of research, and with evidence the Native American Task Force helped to gather, Professor Cahn published Our Brother’s Keeper: The Indian in White America. It substantiated and contributed to efforts that (1) ended the official policy of termination of American Indian nations, (2) embraced the right of self-determination, and (3) led to the enactment of Public Law 93-638, the American Indian Self Determination Act.

Professor Cahn has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights, a Senior Research Fellow at the Southeast Florida Center on Aging at Florida International University, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics. SHERRILYN IFILL

Sherrilyn Ifill is the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the nation’s premier civil rights law organization fighting for racial justice and equality. LDF was founded in 1940 by legendary civil rights lawyer (and later Supreme Court justice) Thurgood Marshall, and became a separate organization from the NAACP in 1957. The lawyers at the Legal Defense Fund developed and executed the legal strategy that led to the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, widely regarded as the most transformative and monumental legal decision of the 20th century. Ifill is the second woman to lead the organization.

Ifill began her career as a Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union, before joining the staff of the LDF as an Assistant Counsel in 1988, where she litigated voting rights cases for five years.

In 1993 Ifill left LDF to join the faculty at University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore. Over twenty years, Ifill taught civil procedure and constitutional law to thousands of law students, and pioneered a series of law clinics, including one of the earliest law clinics in the country focused on challenging legal barriers to the reentry of ex-offenders. Ifill is also a prolific scholar who has published academic articles in leading law journals, and op-eds and commentaries in leading newspapers. Her 2007 book “On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century,” was highly acclaimed, and is credited with laying the foundation for contemporary conversations about lynching and reconciliation. A 10th anniversary edition of the book was recently released with a Foreword by Bryan Stevenson, the acclaimed lawyer and founder of the national lynching memorial in Montgomery, AL.

In 2013, Ifill was invited back to the Legal Defense Fund – this time to lead the organization as its 7th Director-Counsel. In that role, Ifill has increased the visibility and engagement of the organization in cutting edge and urgent civil rights issues, while maintaining the organization’s decades-long leadership fighting voter suppression, inequity in education, and racial discrimination in application of the death penalty. At critical moments during national unrest following the killing of unarmed African Americans by law enforcement officers, Ifill’s voice and vision framed the issue of policing reform and urban deprivation with powerful clarity in media appearances and public discussions. Her forceful and fact-based analysis of complex issues of racial justice has made her a sought-after speaker and strategist whose counsel is sought by government officials, civic and community leaders, and national civil rights colleagues.

Ifill graduated from Vassar College in 1984 with a B.A. in English, and earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1987. She has received honorary doctorates from New York University, Bard College, Fordham Law School and CUNY Law School. She serves on the board of the National Women’s Law Center, the National Constitution Center and on the Advisory board for the Profiles in Courage Award. She is a past chair of U.S. board of the Open Society Foundations, one of the largest philanthropic supporters of civil rights and liberties in the country. HONORARY HOST DC SCHOOL OF LAW COMMITTEE FOUNDATION

Mayor Muriel Bowser Hon. Kenyan R. McDuffie D.C. Councilmember, Hon. Phil Mendelson Ward 5 D.C. Council Chairman Hon. Charles Allen Hon. David Grosso D.C. Councilmember, D.C. Councilmember, Ward 6 At-Large Hon. Vincent C. Gray Hon. Elissa Silverman D.C. Councilmember, D.C. Councilmember, Ward 7 At-Large Hon. Eleanor Holmes Norton Hon. Robert C. White, Jr. U.S. Congresswoman, D.C. D.C. Councilmember, At-Large Hon. Karl A. Racine

Hon. Brianne K. Nadeau Susan M. Hoffman D.C. Councilmember, President, Ward 1 DC Bar Board of Governors

Hon. Mary M. Cheh D.C. Councilmember, Ward 3

*Affiliations listed for identification purposes only. Hon. Brandon T. Todd D.C. Councilmember, Ward 4 HONORARY HOST DC SCHOOL OF LAW COMMITTEE FOUNDATION UDC LAW FACULTY AND STAFF GALA SPONSORS

ADMINISTRATION Renée McDonald Hutchins, Dean LaShanda T. Adams, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Tamara Dévieux-Adams, Associate Dean of Students Matthew I. Fraidin, Associate Dean of Experiential and Clinical Programs William C. Nelson, Jr., Associate Dean of Administration & Finance Jino Ray, Associate Dean of Admission Carla P. Wale, Associate Dean for Law Library & IT Services

FACULT Y LaShanda T. Adams Twinette Johnson Etienne Toussaint John C. Brittain Christine L. Jones Nicole Tuchinda Katherine S. Broderick Marcy Karin Carla P. Wale Stephanie Y. Brown Samer Korkor Susan L. Waysdorf Kristina Campbell Jacqueline Lainez Edgar S. Cahn Debra R. Cohen Flanagan Chris Hill Rafael Cox Alomar Philip Lee Bennett Lerner Andrew Ferguson Thomas Mack Edward Allen Janet Fiorentino Laurie Morin Robert L. Burgdorf Jr. Matthew I. Fraidin Faith Mullen Gay Gellhorn Tianna Gibbs Chris Payne-Tsoupros Hon. William C. Pryor Lindsay M. Harris Wilhelmina M. Reuben- William L. Robinson Louise A. Howells Cooke Joseph B. Tulman Renée M. Hutchins Saleema Snow

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At UDC Law – the District’s only public law school – our students do justice in this era of assault on American values while receiving a high-quality education. UDC Law is committed to the practice of law in the public interest, providing more than 100,000 hours of legal services to thousands of low-income D.C. residents each year through the law school’s legal clinics and robust set of experiential programs. With the largest clinical requirement of any U.S. law school, our nationally ranked clinical program provides students the opportunity to gain experience in direct representation and policy advocacy. These commitments have earned UDC Law a No. 2 ranking by Law.com (2019) for government and public interest job placement. UDC Law also boasts significant representation of women, people of color and older students, with top-five rankings from the Princeton Review (2019) for greatest resources for women (No. 4), minority (No. 5) and older students (No. 1). Save the Date4th Annual UDC Law Gala February 18, 2021

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