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Judge, United States District Court, District of Connecticut, 2014-present

Corporation Counsel, City of New Haven, Connecticut, 2009-2014

Confirmed by the United States Senate, Judge, United States District Court, Connecticut, November 20, 2014

Nominated by President Barack Obama, Judge, United States District Court, District of Connecticut, June 16, 2014

General Counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Incorporated, 2005-2009

Counsel, Wiggin & Dana, 2004-2005

Associate, Wiggin & Dana, 2000-2003

Assistant Counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Incorporated, 1994-2000

Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, 1990-1994

Marvin Karpatkin Fellow, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, 1989-1990

Intern, Cook County Law Office of Public Defender, 1988

Member, Leadership Council, Church of the Redeemer New Haven, 2013-present

Member, Editorial Board, Connecticut Law Tribune, 2012-present

Member, Board of Directors, Connecticut Veterans Legal Center, 2011-present

Member, Connecticut Civil Commission, 2011-present

Treasurer/Secretary/Member, New Haven County Bar Association, 2003-present

Various committees, American Bar Association, 2002-present

Member, Twenty-Fifth Ward Democratic Town Committee, 2002-present

Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Member, New Haven Inn of Court

Member, Superior Court Rules Committee, Task Force to Study Minimum Continuing Legal Education, 2012-2013

Member, Wiggin & Dana Diversity Advisory Board, 2008-2013

Board Member, National Coalition Against Censorship, 2000-2010

Board Member, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, 2007-2009

Board Member, Connecticut Food Bank, 2001-2005

Chair, International Center of New Haven, 2004-2005

Board Member, International Center of New Haven, 2003-2005

Member, Legal Education Committee, National Association of College and University Attorneys, 2003

Board of Advisors, National Voting Rights Institute, 1996-2001

Mentor, Science and Technology Exploration Program, 1990-1991

Summer Counselor, Double Discovery Center, Upward Bound Program, Columbia University, 1986

Awards:

Connecticut Law Tribune's Lawyers of Color: High Achievers (2011)

Wasserstein Fellow, Wasserstein Fellowship Public Interest Program (fellows return
to Harvard Law School's campus to counsel law students interested in public interest
careers) (1995 -1996)

Marvin Karpatkin Fellowship (one-year attorney position with the American Civil
Liberties Union's National Legal Department) (1989- 1990)

Irving Oberman Memorial Award (best paper on a current legal subject at Harvard Law
School) (1989)

Columbia College, Columbia University, Leonard A. Pullman Memorial Prize (to senior
for scholarship and service to Columbia College) (1986)

Columbia College, Columbia University, Milch Prize (to junior who has done the most to
enhance the reputation of Columbia College) (1985)

Columbia College, Columbia University, John T. Lewis Scholarship (1985)

Columbia College, Columbia University, Brod Room Prize (1985)

Publications:

When Reproductive Rights Still Meant a Criminal Prosecution,
Connecticut Law Tribune, January 22, 2014.

Nelson Mandela and the Power of the Law, Connecticut Law Tribune,
December 11, 2013.

And We Are Not Done Yet, Connecticut Law Tribune, July 29,2013.

The Poetic License, Connecticut Law Tribune, January 28, 2013.

Welcome to the Bar (Soon), Connecticut Law Tribune, May 20, 2013.

We the People, Connecticut Law Tribune, November 26, 2012.

In Remembrance of Judge Mark R. Kravitz, Connecticut Law Tribune,
October 19,2012.

Why Not A Professional Development Day, Connecticut Law Tribune,
June 11, 2012.

Debating Jealous, Letter to the Editor, re article on Benjamin Jealous, Columbia
Magazine, Fall 2013.

Ricci v. DeStefano: The Case For the City, New Haven Register, May 3, 2009.

Online Post, in response to City Won't Pay Cops' Legal Bills, New Haven
Independent, February 18,2009.

The Oneness of Twoness: The Promise and Challenge of Racial Equality, Joint
Center for Political and Economic Studies, Focus Magazine, May/June 2008.

Changing the Deposition Testimony of a Witness, ABA Section of Litigation,
Pretrial Practice & Discovery Newsletter, Spring 2005.

Developments in the Second Circuit: 2002-2003, 36 Connecticut Law Review
1187 (2004) (co-author of article /author of constitutional and civil rights law
section).

Survey of Connecticut Privacy and Related Claims Against the Media, 50-State
Survey Media Privacy and Related Law 2004-2005, Media Law Resource
Center, Inc., (2004) (co-author).

Survey of Connecticut Privacy and Related Claims Against the Media, 50-State
Survey Media Privacy and Related Law 2003 - 2004, Media Law Resource
Center, Inc., (2003) (co-author).

Libel Defense Resource Center, Inc. Media Letter, Connecticut Court Issues
Media-Friendly Decisions on Fair Report Privilege and Retraction Statute, (2002)
(co-author).

Affirmative Action in Court: The Case for Optimism, Equity & Excellence in Education, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 24-30 (1999) (co-author).

Where Does New York City Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, 23 Fordham
Urban Law Journal 1031 (1996).

The Question Is Whether Court Values Equality Goals- And If So, How Much?"
Civil Liberties, Spring 1990.

Judge Not That Ye Be Not Judged: A Dramatic Call for a More Enlightened
Approach to Judicial Decision-Making in Race Discrimination Cases, 7 Harvard
Blackletter Journal 33 (1990).

Salvaging Black Males, in Racial Reflections: Dialogues in the Direction of
Liberation, 37 UCLA L. Rev. 1037 (1989-1990).

CU Badly Needs Change, Columbia Daily Spectator, April23, 1985.