White House Nominates LGBT Advocate for EEOC
September 15, 2009 by James Hipps
The White House has nominated Chai Feldblum, a long-time LGBT rights advocate, to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission!
Chai Feldblum is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center where she has taught since 1991. She also founded the Law Center’s Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic, a program designed to train students to become legislative lawyers. Feldblum previously served as Legislative Counsel to the AIDS Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. In this role, she developed legislation, analyzed policy on various AIDS-related issues, and played a leading role in the drafting of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and, later as a law professor, in the passage of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. She has also worked on advancing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and has been a leading expert on the Employment Nondiscrimination Act. As Co-Director of Workplace Flexibility 2010, Feldblum has worked to advance flexible workplaces in a manner that works for employees and employers. Feldblum clerked for Judge Frank Coffin and for Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and B.A. from Barnard College.
Feldblum is the partner of Nan Hunter, Professor of Law at Georgetown University in D.C. and owner of Hunter of Justice – a blog about sexuality, gender, law and culture!
Our congratulations go out to Chai and Nan!
She should be Holder’s replacement instead.