NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) "was founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall. Although LDF's primary purpose was to provide legal assistance to poor African Americans, its work over the years has brought greater justice to all Americans." [1]
Board Of Directors
National Officers
- Chairs - William M. Lewis, Jr., Theodore V. Wells, Jr.
- Vice Chairs - Tonya Lewis Lee, Daniel L. Rabinowitz
- Secretary - Patrick A. Bradford
- Treasurer - Clifford P. Case III
- Director-Counsel and President - Theodore M. Shaw
- Associate Director-Counsel - Jacqueline A. Berrien
National Board Of Directors
- Billye Suber Aaron
- Gerald S. Adolph
- Eleanor S. Applewhaite
- Mary Frances Berry
- Julius L. Chambers
- James Cole, Jr.
- Kenneth C. Edelin
- Leonard J. Elmore
- Gregory Evans
- Toni G. Fay
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
- David E. Kendall
- Caroline B. Kennedy
- Paula Madison
- John D. Maguire
- Cecilia S. Marshall
- David Mills
- Gabriella E. Morris
- Richard M. Moss
- James M. Nabrit III
- Lawrence Newman
- Adebayo Ogunlesi
- Martin D. Payson
- Steven B. Pfeiffer
- Paul N. Roth
- Judith McCartin Scheide
- Jimmie Lee Solomon
- William B. Wachtel
- John W. Walker
- Karen Hastie Williams
Senior Directors
- Anthony G. Amsterdam
- William K. Coblentz
- William T. Coleman, Jr.
- Theodore L. Cross
- Nannette B. Gibson
- Jack Greenberg
- Louis Harris
- Anna Faith Jones
- Jetta N. Jones
- David S. Lindau
- Robert O. Preyer
- Norman Redlich
- Charles B. Renfrew
- Judith T. Sapers
- William H. Scheide
- Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.
- George Wallerstein
- Andrew Young
Co-Chairs Emeriti
Directors Emeriti
- Clarence Avant
- Alice M. Beasley
- Anita Lyons Bond
- William H. Brown III
- Talbot DAlemberte
- Peter J. DeLuca
- Adrian W. DeWind
- Anthony S. Downs
- Robert F. Drinan, S.J.
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Clarence Finley
- H. Minton Francis
- John Hope Franklin
- Ronald T. Gault
- Lucy Durr Hackney
- Charles V. Hamilton
- Patricia I. Irvin
- Quincy Jones
- Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach
- George E. Marshall, Jr.
- Glendora McIlwain Putnam
- C. Carl Randolph
- Gilbert T. Ray
- Wayman F. Smith III
- Michael I. Sovern
- Bonnie Kayatta Steingart
- Chuck Stone
- Jay Topkis
- Roger W. Wilkins
- E. Thomas Williams, Jr.
Related Sourcewatch
- Lynn Walker Huntley - former staff counsel
- Tanya Coke - former staff
- Bill Quigley
- Elaine Jones - retired president and director-counsel
- Michael Davidson - assistant counsel
- Nancy Bush Ellis - co-chair of the New England section
- James P. Steyer
- Catherine Powell - former staff attorney
- Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker - former cooperating attorney