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Sherrilyn Ifill

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Nationality
  
American

Spouse
  
Ivo Knobloch (m. 1988)

Siblings
  
Darlene Ifill-Taylor

Occupation
  
Lawyer

Books
  
On the courthouse lawn

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Known for
  
President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Similar
  
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Profiles

Sherrilyn Ifill is an American lawyer. She is a law professor and President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She is the Legal Defense Fund's seventh President since Thurgood Marshall founded the organization in 1940. Ifill is also a nationally recognized expert on voting rights and judicial selection.

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Education

Ifill attended Vassar College and New York University School of Law.

Career

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Ifill had served as assistant counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, litigating Voting Rights Act cases including the landmark Houston Lawyers' Association v. Attorney General of Texas. Her first job out of law school was a one year fellowship with the ACLU in New York. In 1993, she joined the faculty of the University of Maryland Law School where she taught for two decades. She is the author of On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century, a 2008 finalist for Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction. In 2016, Ifill won the Society of American Law Teachers Great Teacher Award.

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Ifill regularly appears in the media for her expertise on topics like affirmative action, policing, judicial nominees, and the Supreme Court.

Personal life

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Ifill was a cousin of the late PBS NewsHour anchor Gwen Ifill. Their family immigrated to the U.S. from Barbados via Panama, with Sherrilyn and Gwen Ifill's fathers, who were brothers, both becoming African Methodist Episcopalian ministers.

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References

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