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Deborah N. Archer
President of the American Civil Liberties Union
Incumbent
Assumed office
February 1, 2021
Preceded bySusan Herman
Personal details
SpouseRichard Buery
Children2
Alma materSmith College
Yale Law School
ProfessionLawyer
Law professor

Deborah N. Archer is an American civil rights lawyer and law professor. She is the Jacob K. Javits Professor at New York University and Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law. She also directs the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law and the Civil Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law. In January 2021, she was elected president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), becoming the first African American to hold the position in the organization’s 101 years of operating.

Early life

Archer was born to immigrants from Jamaica, becoming a first-generation citizen of the United States as well as the first in her family to attend college.[1] Archer attended Smith College, graduating cum laude with a degree in government in 1993.[2] She graduated from Yale Law School in 1996.[2]

Career

After graduating from Yale, Archer clerked for Judge Alvin Thompson on the US District Court for the District of Connecticut,[3] and the following year (1997 to 1998) was a Marvin M. Karpatkin legal fellow at the ACLU.[4] Prior to joining legal academia, Archer also worked as an associate at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett[3] and was assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.[5]

In 2003, Archer joined the faculty of New York Law School (NYLS), where she was the first dean of diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer, and associate dean for academic affairs and student engagement.[3] She led the school’s Racial Justice Project and the Impact Center for Public Interest Law, which she co-founded.[3]

Since 2009, she has been on the ACLU’s board, and since 2017 has been general counsel and a member of the board’s executive committee of the board.[5] She is also a member of the board of the New York Civil Liberties Union.[6] In 2016 and again in 2017, Archer served as acting chair of the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board, the body that investigates allegations of police misconduct.[7]

After 15 years at NYLS, Archer moved to New York University (NYU) in July 2018.[1] At NYU Archer is Jacob K. Javits Professor and Professor of Clinical Law, Co-Faculty Director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, and Director of the Civil Rights Clinic at New York University School of Law.[2]

In January 2021, Archer was elected president of the ACLU, becoming the first African American to hold the position in the organization’s 101-year history.[5]

Personal life

Archer is married to Richard Buery, former deputy mayor of New York City.[8] They live in Brooklyn with their two sons.[1]

Selected works

  • Archer, Deborah N. (2009–2010). "Introduction: Challenging the School-to-Prison Pipeline". New York Law School Law Review. 54: 867.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  • Archer, Deborah N.; Williams, Kele S. (2005–2006). "Making America the Land of Second Chances: Restoring Socioeconomic Rights for Ex-Offenders". New York University Review of Law & Social Change. 30: 527.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  • Archer, Deborah N. (2013). "There Is No Santa Claus: The Challenge of Teaching the Next Generation of Civil Rights Lawyers in a Post-Racial Society". Columbia Journal of Race and Law. 4: 55.

References

  1. ^ a b c Southgate, Martha (Spring 2019). "'I've Picked A Lane. It's Racial Justice.'". Smith Alumnae Quarterly. Archived from the original on 2020-11-05. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
  2. ^ a b c "Deborah N. Archer - Overview | NYU School of Law". its.law.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  3. ^ a b c d "Civil rights and racial justice scholar Deborah Archer to join NYU Law faculty". NYU School of Law. March 1, 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  4. ^ Guzman, Joseph (1 February 2021). "ACLU elects Deborah Archer as first Black president". The Hill. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  5. ^ a b c "Deborah Archer becomes first Black person elected to be ACLU's president". PBS NewsHour. 1 February 2021. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  6. ^ Thornton, Cedric (1 February 2021). "Deborah Archer Becomes First Black President The ACLU". Black Enterprise. Archived from the original on 4 February 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  7. ^ Mueller, Benjamin (August 3, 2017). "Chairwoman Steps Down at New York City Police Oversight Agency". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 15, 2021. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  8. ^ Gonen, Yoav (2018-04-12). "De Blasio appoints old allies to new city watchdog group". New York Post. Archived from the original on 2020-11-09. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
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