Charles J. Ogletree, Chairman of the Board 

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute of Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, has been teaching at Harvard Law School since 1984. He is the author of The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America, published in 2010, as well as other books on the criminal justice system.  He represented people accused of crimes in adult and juvenile proceedings in the local superior court and federal courts, as well as the courts of appeals, of the District of Columbia, where he was a trial attorney, training director, trial chief and deputy director of the Public Defender Serivce from 1978 to 1985. His leadership on the Center's board includes arguing Ford v. Georgia, 498 U.S. 411 (1991), before the United States Supreme Court, and continuing to represent James Ford in the Superior Court of Coweta County, Ga. after the Supreme Court remanded it to the Georgia courts, in successfully challenging the prosecution's use of its discretionary strikes against African American in the selection of the jury that sentenced Ford to death. At Harvard Law School, he teaches courses on criminal law and procedure, professional responsibility, and a host of clinical courses involving trial practice. In addition, he has addressed matters of constitutional significance in various ways from hosting programs on the Public Broadcasting System, to editing and writing materials such as From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (Ogletree & Austin Sarat, eds., NYU Press 2006), to conducting programs at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute on a wide rage of justice issues. Professor Ogletree earned a B.A. in Political Science (with distinction) and a M.A. in Political Science from Stanford University (1974 and 1975 respectively), and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, 1978.

Betsy Biben-Seligman

Public Defender Service, Washington, DC

A Forensic and Clinical Social Worker, Betsy Biben-Seligman serves as the Chief of the Office of Rehabilitation and Development Division for Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia where she has been employed since 1982 and the head of the division since 20002.  She has prepared sentencing reports and/or testimony before courts in Washington, D.C. (local and federal), Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama and has trained judges, attorneys, law and social work students on a national and local basis since 1976.  She is a founding member of National Alliance of Sentencing Advocates and Mitigation Specialists (NASAMS, formerly named National Association of Sentencing Advocates (NASA) and a former consultant for The Sentencing Project and the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA).  Betsy is a former chair of the NLADA Social Service Section.  She has been a board member of the Southern Center for Human Rights since 1992 and a member of the board for Visitors Services Center since 2003.  She has worked in the criminal justice system since 1974.  Betsy received her Masters in Social Work from the University of Connecticut in 1982, and a postgraduate certificate from the Washington School of Psychiatry in 1986.  She is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW) and is a licensed social worker in D.C. (LICSW) and Maryland (LCSW).  Betsy, who co-chairs the Frederick Douglass Awards Dinner with Ginny Sloan, is currently on the Development Committee of the Board.

Mary Broderick 

Los Angeles, CA

Mary Broderick works as a consultant for the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) assessing indigent defense systems around the country.  She was executive director of California Attorneys for Criminal Justice. She also served as director of NLADA's defender division, where she conceived and edited NLADA's Standards for the Appointment and Performance of Counsel in Death Penalty Cases, and designed and launched NLADA's Life in the Balance death penalty defense training.  In addition to serving on Southern Center for Human Rights’ Board, she is on the board of Death Penalty Focus.

Gregory Camp 

Attorney at Law, New York, NY

Gregory Camp, who had a limited run this year for Manhattan District Attorney as the Republican and Liberal Party anti-death penalty candidate, is a graduate of Yale University where he received his BA, law, and business degrees. He was an investment banker for 11 years, a prosecutor for 7 years, and deputy director of criminal justice for New York State. Greg serves on the Finance Committee of the Board.

Angela Jordan Davis 

American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC

Angela J. Davis, professor of law at American University's Washington College of Law, is an expert in criminal law and procedure with a specific focus on racism in the criminal justice system and prosecutorial power. Davis previously served as director of the D.C. Public Defender Service, where she began as a staff attorney representing indigent juveniles and adults. She also served as executive director of the National Rainbow Coalition Davis. Davis is a former law clerk of the Honorable Theodore R. Newman, the former Chief Judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peter M. Cicchino Social Justice Foundation, the Frederick Douglas Jordan Scholarship Board, the Southern Center for Human Rights, and the Sentencing Project. Davis was a reporter for the ABA Justice Kennedy Commission and is a member of the ABA Commission for Effective Criminal Sanctions. She also serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the Vera Institute of Justice Prosecution and Racial Justice Project. Davis teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Criminal Defense: Theory and Practice. Davis won the American University Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in a Full-Time Appointment in 2002 and the University Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, Creative Activity, and Other Professional Contributions in 2009.   Her latest book, Arbitrary Justice:  The Power of the American Prosecutor (Oxford University Press 2007, 2009), won the Association of American Publishers 2007 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division Award for Excellence in the Law and Legal Studies Division.

Maureen F. Del Duca

Washington, DC

Maureen Del Duca is currently Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and the Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer of AOL Inc.  Previously, she was Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Litigation, for Marriott International, Vice President of Litigation for MCI, Inc., Chief of the Investigations and Hearings Division of the Enforcement Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission, a partner in Jenner & Block's Washington, D.C. office, and a Law Clerk to the Honorable Leonard I. Garth in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  Maureen was also a Supervising Attorney with the Appellate Litigation Clinic of the Georgetown University Law Center, representing indigent prisoners in criminal, civil rights, and habeas appeals.  

Maureen is a member of the Chief Litigation Counsel Association, and she serves on the Boards of Directors of the District of Columbia Bar Foundation, the Appleseed Foundation, the Ivymount School, and the Ivymount Foundation, and she is on the Professional Advisory Board of Itineris, Inc.   Maureen was recently named one of Washington, DC’s Most Influential In House Lawyers by the National Law Journal, and, along with her mother, Frances Del Duca, was the co-recipient of the 2011 Sylvia H. Rambo Award.   She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College, her M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, her J.D. from the New York University School of Law, and her LL.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center.  

Maureen is also the mother of two nonverbal teenage boys with severe autism and related disorders, and advocates in various forums on issues relating to the transition of young people with autism to adult living, focusing on the needs of those individuals who require intensive support to enable them to lead safe, dignified, occupied, and happy adult lives.

Edward T. M. Garland  

Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C., Atlanta, GA

Edward T. M. Garland is one of the nation's most outstanding criminal defense attorneys and has long been a civic and bar leader in Georgia. His father, Reuben Garland, traveled the back roads of Georgia, defending poor African Americans and whites, often saving them from "mob justice." To this day, Ed Garland and his partners Garland, Samuel & Loeb strongly adhere to the commitment to vigorously defending the accused. They have often joined with the Center's lawyers in defending people facing the death penalty, filing lawsuits to improve representation for poor people accused of crimes, and advocating competent legal representation for the poor. Ed played a leading role in helping bring about creation of Georgia's public defender system in 2003. Ed and his partner, Donald Samuel, successfully represented Ray Lewis, linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens, who was indicted for a double homicide on Superbowl Sunday in Atlanta. The firm also represented Jim Williams, the protagonist in the non-fiction book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, who was acquitted of murder in his fourth trial. The firm also handles personal injury, product liability, malpractice and other types of cases. Ed is a past president of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, International Academy of Trial Lawyers and other organizations.

C. Allen Garrett Jr.

Atlanta, GA

Allen Garrett is a partner at Kilpatrick Stockton and has significant experience in complex business litigation, arbitration, and appellate matters. Substantive areas of experience include antitrust and trade regulation, commercial contract disputes, consumer class actions (including "no injury" class actions), commercial insurance coverage disputes, enforcement of restrictive covenants, products liability, toxic torts, and trade secret litigation. His trial level experiences include state and federal court actions in numerous jurisdictions, as well as actions consolidated for pretrial proceedings by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. In recent years Allen has litigated a number of cutting-edge issues in connection with state consumer fraud statutes, federal jurisdictional disputes, and the protection of competitively valuable information.

Allen has litigated matters involving consumer protection statutes of numerous states, including several multidistrict cases, and has specific expertise regarding California's consumer protection laws. In addition to consumer fraud class action, he has defended punitive class actions and other multi-claimant actions brought by businesses, and he also has experience with franchise disputes. Recently, he has begun to counsel clients regarding the drafting and enforcement of class-action waivers, forum selection clauses, and choice-of-law provisions that increase the likelihood of defeating class certification. Allen has extensive appellate litigation experience. In addition to briefing appeals to the United States Supreme Court and numerous state and federal appellate courts, he has argued a number of appeals and provided advice in connection with countless others. Allen frequently has lectured on appellate briefing issues and recently was a member of the Eleventh Circuit Appellate Practice Institute panel on the topic of "Writing the Winning Brief." His appellate brief-writing skills have been praised by professional appellate consultants.

Allen also has participated in significant pro bono matters at both the trial and appellate level, including in recent proceedings before the United States Supreme Court and the Georgia Supreme Court. As a result of his continuing commitment to pro bono matters he received the firm's Managing Partners' Pro Bono Award in 2007.

Stephen F. Hanlon

Holland & Knight LLP, Washington, DC

Steve Hanlon has a long history of handling public interest and civil rights cases. He manages Holland & Knight's Community Services Team, which provides legal representation to individuals and groups otherwise unable to afford it. In 1997, the firm received the ABA Pro Bono Publico Award. The American Lawyer has described Holland and Knight as a "Pro Bono Champion." Mr. Hanlon's major civil rights work has included challenges to high stakes testing, challenges to indigent defense systems, a claims bill in the Florida Legislature for the survivors of the town of Rosewood, housing, employment and AIDS discrimination, death penalty litigation, prisoner rights, and a constitutional challenge to non-consented medical experimentation. In 2006, Steve received the Chesterfield Smith Award from Holland & Knight, the firm’s highest individual recognition.

William E. Hoffman, Jr.

King & Spalding LLC, Atlanta, GA

As Pro Bono partner of King & Spalding, Bill Hoffman has been involved in a number of SCHR’s cases, working closely with staff attorneys. He is currently working with the Impact Unit on indigent defense cases. As Pro Bono Partner and Pro Bono Chair of the Atlanta office, Bill is responsible for the full range of pro bono programs and pro bono litigation of the 1,000 lawyer firm on a full-time basis. His current practice includes issues surrounding International Human Rights, Asylum, Death Penalty, Civil Rights, Prisoner Rights and First Amendment. Bill received his undergraduate degree from the College of William & Mary in 1967, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy, with distinction from University of Georgia in 1971. Bill returned to William & Mary where he served as editor in chief of the William & Mary Law Review. He received his JD in 1977, graduating first in his class. Following law school, Bill clerked for a year for the Honorable Francis L. Van Dusen at the US Court of Appeals Third Circuit and left there in 1978 to practice at Bondurant, Miller & Stephenson until 1985. He became partner at King & Spalding in 1985, focusing on litigation.

Katharine Huffman

The Raben Group, Washington, DC

Katharine Huffman, a Principal at The Raben Group, a DC-based public policy firm founded by former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Robert Raben, began her legal career as a civil rights litigator and Soros Justice Fellow at the Southern Center for Human Rights. Prior to joining The Raben Group, she served as the Director of State Affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance, founding the organization’s New Mexico office and managing its state-level work across the country. Katharine currently leads the Constitution and Justice Practice Group at The Raben Group, working with a variety of nonprofit advocacy organizations to identify policy goals, develop short- and long-term strategic plans, and build organizational programming and resources. In 2008, Katharine led SCHR staff in the effort to develop its first 5 year strategic plan. Katharine, a Memphis, Tennessee native, received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Music from Emory University, where she was a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar; and her law degree from the Yale Law School. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Katharine was elected to the SCHR board in June 2009.

Susan Ten Kwan

Office of the State Public Defender, San Francisco, CA

Susan Ten Kwan is a Senior Deputy at the Office of the California State Public Defender in San Francisco. There, she provides direct representation to indigent defendants sentenced to death in their state post-conviction appeals and related habeas corpus litigation. She has also been a staff attorney at the California Appellate Project in San Francisco where she assisted private counsel appointed to represent death row inmates in their state and federal post-conviction litigation. Susan began her career as a criminal defense attorney in 1982 at the Contra Costa County Public Defender’s Office where she represented both adult and juvenile defendants in trial court proceedings. She is a graduate of University of California, Hastings College of Law. Susan, who hosts an annual fundraiser in San Francisco for SCHR, is a member of the Development Committee.

David Lipman

Lipman and Associates, Miami, FL

David Lipman began his legal career in 1970 in Greenwood, Mississippi litigating civil rights cases involving school desegregation, prison reform, employment discrimination, voting rights and municipal services discrimination. In 1973, David formed the Mississippi Prisoners’ Defense Committee and became its first General Counsel. Thereafter, David formed the Southern Prisoners’ Defense Committee which was later named the Southern Center for Human Rights.

In 1975, David moved to Washington, D.C. with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law continuing his civil rights practice throughout the South. Since 1979, David has been in private practice in Florida representing clients in civil rights and asbestos-cancer products liability law suits.

David graduated from Duquesne University School of Law in 1970. He currently serves on the Board of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law and is a founding member and current Board member of the Mississippi Center for Justice. David has served as consulting counsel for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice; NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Florida ACLU. David, who provided seed money for the Stephen Bright Fellowship to fund a position at SCHR, serves on the Development Committee.

Andrew L. Lipps

Georgetown Day School, Washington, DC

After graduating Stanford Law School in 1974, Andrew Lipps enjoyed a career as a litigator for 24 years in Washington, DC. In 1998, he followed a lifelong passion for mathematics, received a Masters degree in Mathematics from George Washington University and became a math teacher. For the past seven years, Mr. Lipps has taught math at Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC. In addition, he and his wife have been members of Adas Israel since 1979, where he has been a member of the Board of Directors and active on the Personnel Committee for the last ten years, having served as Chair of the Committee. He has taught classes in Hebrew Literacy and on occasion reads Torah during Shabbat services.

Alexander Rundlet

Miami, Florida

Alexander joined Podhurst Orseck in 2006 and handles criminal matters of every level in the State and Federal courts; quasi–criminal and civil regulatory matters before State and Federal agencies, including before The Florida Bar; simple and complex commercial disputes; and personal injury matters.

Prior to law school, Alexander was a Health Education Volunteer in the United States Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa, where he provided health care to a population of approximately 50,000. In law school, Alexander was awarded the University of Pennsylvania Law School′s Public Interest Scholarship; was a Senior and Comments Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law; and was the recipient of the Law School′s Jefferson B. Fordham Human Rights Award. After law school, Alexander clerked for the Honorable Andre M. Davis of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

Following his clerkship, Alexander was awarded a Post–Graduate Justice Fellowship by George Soros′ Open Society Institute. As a Soros Post–Graduate Justice Fellow, Alexander worked as a Staff Attorney at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia, between 2000 and 2003, where he represented individuals in misdemeanor and felony cases and represented individuals on death row in Georgia and Alabama in capital post–conviction proceedings. As a Soros Fellow, Alexander also was a member of the State Bar of Georgia's Indigent Defense Committee and worked with a coalition of lawyers who, through a coordinated campaign of class action litigation, public education and lobbying efforts in the Georgia General Assembly, brought about sweeping criminal justice reform in the State of Georgia. He has appeared before the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court.

Virginia Sloan

The Constitution Project, Washington, DC

Virginia Sloan founded the Constitution Project in 1997 and is now its president and also serves on its Board of Directors. She previously served as Executive Director of the Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and as a counsel to the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. Currently, Ms. Sloan serves as a special counsel to the Council of the American Bar Association's Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities. She also served as chair of the Section's Criminal Justice Committee, which co-sponsored the successful ABA resolution in favor of a death penalty moratorium. Sloan is a member of the Board of Directors of the Southern Center for Human Rights and of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, as well as the Honorary Board of the Washington Council of Lawyers. She is also a member of the ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project’s Assessments Project Advisory Board. Ginny, who along with Betsy Biben, has chaired the Frederick Douglass Awards Dinner, SCHR’s major fundraiser, for many years, serves on the Development Committee.

Bryan Stevenson

Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery, AL

Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative and Professor of Clinical Law at the New York University School of Law, has won national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color in the criminal justice system. A native of Milton, Delaware, Bryan joined the Southern Center as a second year law student and, after two student internships with the Center, joined the staff as an attorney in 1985 after graduating from Harvard Law School and receiving a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Four years later, he and others at the Center helped establish the Alabama Capital Representation Resource Center, which later became the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). Bryan has led the EJI, NYU students, fellows cooperating attorneys and volunteers in securing relief for scores of people condemned to death, successfully challenging the imposition of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on children under 18 at the time of their cimes for non-homicide offenses, and advocating a wide range community-based reforms to end racial discrimination in the criminal justice system, and improve the administration of criminal justice. He received a MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the "Genius Award") in 1995 and was co-recipient of the 2009 Gruber Prize for Justice, which is presented to individuals or organizations for contributions that have advanced the cause of justice as delivered through the legal system.