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Prominent Alumni in the GLBT Community

Libby Adler '94
After earning her J.D. at NUSL, Adler went to Harvard to gain her L.L.M. in 1998 and then returned to NUSL in 1999 to teach Administrative Law, and Constitutional Law, and a new course in Sexuality, Gender and the Law. Adler has also been busy publishing papers in areas of law including civil rights, domestic relations, and women and the law.

Mary Bonauto '87
Bonauto is the Civil Rights Director of Gay Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, and was one of the lead attorneys in the decision that found that same-sex couples have the same rights opposite-sex couples to civil marriage in Massachusetts.

Richard Burns '83
Burns is the Executive Director of the LGBT Community Center, NYC.

Kevin Cathcart '82
Cathcart is the Executive Director of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the organization that succeeded in outlawing sodomy laws nationwide, among many other victories.

Katherine Franke '86
Franke is a leading academic queer theorist.  She serves as Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Columbia Law School and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Law & Culture.

Robert Greenwald '86
Greenwald is Director of Harvard's AIDS Law Clinical and Medical Legal Services program.

Joyce Kauffman '92
Kauffman is a principal in a family law firm with an emphasis on lesbian and gay family law issues.  She won a landmark case where, for the first time in Massachusetts history, a Boston probate court judge allowed a lesbian couple — both who are connected to their child biologically — to be listed as their son’s parents on his birth certificate

Barbara Macy '84
A partner at Macy & Weingarten in Boston, MA, Macy has a gay and lesbian rights practice and was Ethics Editor of "Representing Gay and Lesbian Families" for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2000.

Jody Marksamer '03
An Equal Justice Works Fellow at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Marksamer heads up the Safe Homes Project, where he works to address the legal needs of LGBTQ youth in foster care, group homes, and the juvenile justice system
through direct litigation, technical assistance, education, and advocacy.

Eric J. Stern '02
Stern is Director of the Office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Outreach, Democratic National Committee.

Urvashi Vaid '83
A leading lesbian author and activist and former Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Vaid is currently deputy director of the Program for Governance and Civil Society at the Ford Foundation. .

Deborah Wald '87
Wald devotes much of her private practice to expanding the rights of lesbians and gays to be parents.  She pioneered a process under the Uniform Parentage Act for establishing two women as parents of a child before birth, so that adoption is not necessary.