Press Release

(New York, January 26, 2010) - Today, Lambda Legal announces that Judith Pfenninger joins the staff as its Chief Financial Officer. As the CFO, Pfenninger is responsible for all aspects of Lambda Legal’s accounting, treasury and budgeting functions, and supervises all finance and database management staff.

"I am very excited to be at Lambda Legal and to lead such a talented team," said Judith Pfenninger, Chief Financial Officer at Lambda Legal.

(Johnson City, Tennessee, January 25, 2010) - Today Lambda Legal announces the resolution of a lawsuit against the Johnson City Police Department in Tennessee, on behalf of Kenneth Giles whose photo was made available to the media, contrary to the Department's usual practices.

(San Francisco, December 22, 2009) — Chief Judge of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Alex Kozinski today issued an order confirming that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) has failed to appeal in a timely fashion from his prior order that a married lesbian court employee is entitled to spousal health insurance for her wife.

(Atlanta, GA, June 15, 2009) — The Georgia Supreme Court today agreed with Lambda Legal’s friend-of-the-court brief when it issued a decision that rejected a proposed antigay restriction in a custody arrangement involving a gay father.

(New Orleans, October 7, 2009) – A three-member panel of federal judges in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard today from attorneys on both sides regarding Lambda Legal’s lawsuit against the Louisiana Registrar of Vital Statistics for refusing to respect the New York adoption by a same-sex couple of a Louisiana-born baby boy.

(Huntington, Oregon, August 4, 2009) — Lambda Legal’s clients, an Oregon lesbian couple, have received a letter of apology from Lions Club officials, as well as a promise that the club’s local chapters will be reminded of their responsibilities under state antidiscrimination laws, following an incident at a May 22 club-sponsored catfish derby.

(New York, July 1, 2009) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced it will issue proposed new rules that would lift the HIV travel and immigration ban by removing HIV from the list of communicable diseases of public health significance for immigrants to the United States. 

Scott Schoettes, HIV Project Staff Attorney at Lambda Legal said:

(Atlanta, GA, June 26, 2009) — The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia today denied the Georgia General Assembly's motion to dismiss Lambda Legal's federal lawsuit on behalf of Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgender woman who was fired from her job as Legislative Editor after she told them she planned to transition from male to female.

(New York, June 24, 2009) — With the introduction of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) today, Lambda Legal issued the following statement from Kevin Cathcart, Executive Director of Lambda Legal:

"With an inclusive ENDA now introduced, Congress should act swiftly to pass this law to ensure workplace equality for our entire community. We thank Representative Barney Frank for introducing the bill and Representatives Tammy Baldwin and Jared Polis, and many others, for co-sponsoring it.