Professor Robin A. Lenhardt is featured in an Insider NJ article announcing that she has joined the NJ Institute for Social Justice’s Board of Trustees.
Professor Lenhardt and Reverend Adkins-Jones join a dedicated team of highly respected leaders committed to advancing progressive solutions to the greatest social and racial justice challenges of our time.
Professor Lenhardt is a Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Center on Race, Law and Justice at Fordham University School of Law. She specializes in legal matters involving race, family, and citizenship.
A former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Judge Hugh Bownes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Professor Lenhardt also served as Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where she was a member of the litigation team that defended the University of Michigan in the Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollingeraffirmative action lawsuits. Professor Lenhardt received a Skadden Foundation Fellowship to work as a staff attorney for the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and was employed as an attorney advisor in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel. She later returned to DOJ to review civil rights issues as part of President Barack Obama’s transition team.