2011 Speaker: Virginia E. Sloan
Virginia "Ginny" Sloan is president and founder of the Constitution Project, and serves on its Board of Directors. Prior to founding the Constitution Project in 1997, Ginny served as counsel to the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, 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, a Deputy Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles, and a law clerk to Central District of California U.S. District Court Judge William Matthew Byrne. She is a graduate of Skidmore College and the UCLA School of Law.
Ginny is a special counsel to the Council of the American Bar Association's Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, and is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, the Honorary Board of Directors of the Washington Council of Lawyers, and the ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project's Steering Committee. In May, 2008, Ginny was honored by the Legal Times as a "Champion," one of 30 lawyers who have had "the greatest impact on the Washington legal community over the last 30 years and whose community and public service has set an example that other D.C. lawyers should follow." Other awards include the Washington Council of Lawyers' 2002 President's Award for pro bono and public service.
When: 3:30 pm, Monday, September 19, 2011
What: Constitution Day presentation by Virginia E. Sloan; reception follows
Who: Free and open to the public
Where: Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room, Edmon Low Library, OSU-Stillwater
