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Barbara Arnwine
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Barbara Arnwine, Executive Director of the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, was the Keynote Speaker for the 1st Annual Civil Rights Symposium on Friday, March 27, 2009. The Symposium covered Civil Rights in the 21st Century: Identifying the Issues and Providing Solutions.
Ms. Arnwine is a graduate of Scripps College in Claremont, California. She received her law degree from Duke University School of Law. Prior to her employment with the National Office of the Lawyers’ Committee, Ms. Arnwine was the Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar. She has become renowned for her work on passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1991. Throughout the 1991 campaign, the technical assistance of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights was critical to passage of the Act.
Ms. Arnwine has been a frequent public speaker in the national media on the issue of electoral barriers and needed federal and state reforms. Currently, the Lawyers’ Committee has organized a National Blue Ribbon Commission on the Voting Rights Act to conduct regional hearings throughout the nation to assess continuing obstacles to the exercise of the political franchise. As one of the prominent leaders in the civil rights community, she fights to preserve affirmative action and diversity programs such as those under attack in the University of Michigan Case. |
