Kathryn Kolbert to Head People For the American Way
People For the American Way (PFAW) today announced that Kathryn Kolbert, renowned civil rights lawyer and advocate, an expert on the federal courts, and the executive producer of the National Public Radio series "Justice Talking," has been named president of the national advocacy organization dedicated to preserving constitutional liberties and promoting American values. Kolbert will take the reins of PFAW and its affiliate organization, People For the American Way Foundation, in mid-March . . .
Prior to joining the Annenberg Public Policy Center, Kolbert was a founder and vice president of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (since renamed the Center for Reproductive Rights). During her early career she developed the state legislative advocacy program at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project and was a staff attorney at the Women’s Law Project in Philadelphia.
Kolbert has lived in Philadelphia with her partner Joann Hyle for nearly 30 years. They have two children, Sam and Kate.
Read the rest of the People for the American Way press release.
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Is Kolbert in line, after the precedent of Ginsburg, to be nominated to the Supreme Court if Clinton or Obama win the White House? Anyone who is pro-life or conservative but would be so upset as to decide they will not vote, or who are not prepared to go all out to see that McCain or any other of the Republicans wins if nominated, needs to consider and decide whether they would rather have Ted Olson or another of those McCain, who has Olson’s support or anyone any Republican is likely to appoint if elected, or Kolbert or anyone else any Democrat is likely to appoint, fill the next vacancy on the Supreme Court. That is a major reason I will work join Sam Brownback, Phil Gramm, Trent Lott, and others who are working hard to elect McCain, and who I suspect would also work, as I would, for Huckabee, Romney, or just about any old yellow dog the Republicans nominate this year.