“We are very proud of Sharon for this well-deserved honor. She has truly distinguished herself as an outstanding legal advocate for the LGBT community."
(Washington, DC, October 19, 2018) – The American Bar Association (ABA) announced today Lambda Legal Chief Strategy Officer Sharon McGowan will receive the 2019 Stonewall Award.
(Washington, DC – Oct. 16, 2018) Lambda Legal joined LGBT civil rights organizations Equality North Carolina and Free State Legal, Maryland’s LGBTQ Advocates to urge the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose the nomination of Allison Rushing to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
NEW YORK, NY (Oct. 16, 2018) - Lambda Legal today announced the establishment of the Daniel H. Renberg Legal Fellowship endowed through a $1 million gift by Eugene Kapaloski in honor of his deceased husband and in celebration of the civil rights organization’s 45th anniversary.
“By not allowing transgender people like me to correct our birth certificates, the state complicates every aspect of our lives”
Kansas City, Kansas (Oct. 15, 2018) — Today Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit challenging Kansas’s refusal to correct the gender marker on Kansas birth certificates for transgender individuals. Kansas is one of just three states, along with Tennessee and Ohio, which has yet to change this extremely regressive and outdated policy.
(Washington, DC – Oct. 11, 2018) Today Sharon McGowan, Lambda Legal Chief Strategy Officer and Legal Director, and former senior career Civil Rights Division official, issued the following statement:
We want to acknowledge that the challenges that Lambda Legal faces are real, and we have been and will continue to be hard at work addressing them. In the last two years, we had a change in leadership, created a DC office, made necessary but painful changes to employee benefits, saw the creation of an employee union, and we had more staff turnover than we would like.
(Washington, DC – Oct. 9, 2018) Lambda Legal brought together 27 national, state and local LGBT civil rights organizations to urge the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose the confirmations of Eric Murphy and Chad Readler to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
“Courts across the country have swatted down implementation of this dangerous and discriminatory ban: There is no defensible reason to resurrect it now.”
