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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 19, 2005
CONTACT:
Tracy Schroth
Director of Communications
(510) 835-8098, x3013
Oakland, CA - The National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) is pleased to announce that NCYL Board President and Georgetown Law Professor Peter Edelman has received the prestigious William J. Brennan Jr. Award. The award, presented biannually by the District of Columbia Bar Association, recognizes attorneys for outstanding work toward furthering public interest and equal justice.
An anti-poverty activist and scholar, Edelman has worked extensively on issues of poverty, welfare, juvenile justice, and constitutional law. He is chair of the recently created District of Columbia Access to Justice Commission, a 17-member panel created by the D.C. Court of Appeals. The panel works to address the problem of increasing unmet legal needs of D.C. residents. In addition to his work with the National Center for Youth Law, Edelman serves on the boards of the Center for Law and Social Policy, Common Cause, and the Juvenile Law Center, among others.
Peter Edelman has been a faculty member of Georgetown University Law Center since 1982, and has served as the law center’s associate dean. During President Bill Clinton’s first term, Edelman served as counselor to the secretary and then assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. As a young man, he worked as legislative aide and speechwriter to the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Edelman later served as issues director for Sen. Edward Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1980.
Edelman has also written many articles on poverty, constitutional law, and issues affecting children and youth. In 2001, his book, Searching for America's Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope, was published by Houghton-Mifflin.
A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Edelman clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, and, before that, for Judge Henry J. Friendly of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Edelman also worked in the US Department of Justice in the Kennedy Administration.
Edelman has served as the Director of the New York State Division for Youth, and Vice President of the University of Massachusetts.
He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Children’s Defense Fund. They have three grown sons.
Edelman will be presented with the William J. Brennan Jr. Award at the D.C. Bar Association’s Annual Business Meeting and Awards Dinner. The event will be held at 7p.m. June 23 at the Capital Hilton, 1001 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
For more information, go to www.dcbar.org/annual_meeting/index.cfm <http://www.dcbar.org/annual_meeting>.
The National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) is a national non-profit organization that uses the law to improve the lives of poor children. The Center works to ensure that low- income children have the resources, support, and opportunities they need for a healthy and productive future. NCYL focuses its work in three areas: Safety, stability, and well- being of abused and neglected children, health and mental health care, and financial stability for low-income families with children.
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