ACLU of Maryland honors C. Christopher Brown with 2012 Elisabeth Gilman Award
On Thursday, October 4, the ACLU of Maryland gave C. Christopher Brown the organization's highest honor, the 2012 Elisabeth Gilman Award. Chris serves as General Counsel for the ACLU of Maryland, a volunteer position.
C. Christopher Brown's tireless dedication to civil rights is evident in some of his career highlights: arguing three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and litigating a series of Voting Rights Act lawsuits, which brought the first African-American officeholders to many Maryland town and county councils.
C. Christopher Brown was a Professor of Law at University of Maryland School of Law from 1975 to 2005 and Emeritus from 2006 to present. He has been named one of Maryland's "Top 50 Super Lawyers", a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and The Daily Record's Leadership in Law Winner. Additionally, he was one of a distinguished group of attorneys who have been listed in Best Lawyers in America for ten years or longer. Chris was selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers First Amendment Litigation category and in 2012 he was awarded the inaugural Dickens Warfield Fair Housing Award by Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc. for his years of support in successfully advancing BNI's fair housing litigation.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland invites you to celebrate the power of the individual to challenge inequality and remedy injustice.
Our speakers include:
- Alli Harper, President, ACLU of Maryland
- Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice
- Susan Goering, Executive Director of ACLU of Maryland
- C. Christopher Brown, ACLU of Maryland General Counsel, for his tireless dedication to civil rights, with the 2012 Gilman Award
- Carl O Snowden, with the Inaugural C. Christopher Brown Award
- Sarah Posner, with the 2012 Jack Levin Award
| Date(s): | October 4, 2012 |
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| Time(s): | 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
| Location: | University of Maryland Campus Center |
The program begins at 6:00 p.m. and tickets are $75 each.
For more information or to RSVP please contact Caity Lovett at 410-889-8550 ext. 117 or lovett@aclu-md.org
We would like to thank our event sponsors Brown Goldstein Levy and University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law for their support:
