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• Member, Iraq Study Group
• Senior Counsel, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, & Feld, LLP
• Senior Managing Director, Lazard, Freres, & Co., LLC
• Chairman, Clinton Presidential Transition Team, 1992

  Presidential Appointments:
  

• President’s Advisory Committee for the Points of Light Initiative Foundation
• Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on South Africa
• The Advisory Council on Social Security
• The Presidential Clemency Board
• The American Revolution Bicentennial Commission
• The National Advisory Committee on Selective Service
• The Council of the White House Conference “To Fulfill These Rights”

• J.D., Howard University Law School, 1960
• B.S., DePauw University, 1957

• Board Member, American Express Company
• Board Member, Dow Jones & Company
• President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), National Urban League, Inc.
• Executive Director, United Negro College Fund, Inc.
• Director, Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council
• Attorney-consultant, U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity
• Assistant to the Executive Director, Southern Regional Council
• Georgia Field Director, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• Holds honorary degrees from more than 50 colleges and universities

Select Publications:
• Vernon Can Read! A Memoir, (co-author with Annette Gordon-Reed), New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2002
• "Burke Marshall - Civil Rights Leader," Yale Law Journal, 2004, 113(4): 803