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      Chairman of the Board          
                    John C. Brittain

Professor Brittain is currently a professor at the University of the District of Columbia School of Law and the former Chief Counsel of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.  He has previously held numerous prestigious positions including Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law and Thrugood Marshall School of Law, as well as serving as Dean of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law.  Brittain has a background of thirty-five years in the legal profession and the past twenty-eight years in legal education with substantial experience in public interest litigation.  Most notably, Brittain is one of the lawyers who filed the landmark Sheff v. O’Neill school desegregation case in 1989.  This lawsuit challenged the racial, economic, and educational segregation between Hartford and the surrounding school districts as a denial of a student’s fundamental right to an equal education under the Connecticut Constitution. The  Connecticut Supreme Court issued a precedent setting ruling in July 1996. A majority of justices  found that the extreme racial and ethnic isolation of African American and Latino students denied the schoolchildren in Hartford their fundamental right to an equal educational opportunity.  This case remains the seminal case on this issue.           Full Bio

   

     Members of the Board
          To Be Named