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Commissioners
 Honorary
Chair, Charles McCurdy Mathias, Jr., is a former
Representative and Senator from Maryland. Before
serving in Congress, Mathias served a year in the
Maryland House of Delegates from 1959 – 1960,
was a city attorney of Frederick from 1954-1959
and an assistant attorney general of Maryland from
1953-1954. As a 3-term Senator from January 1969
through January 1987, Senator Mathias served as
Chairman of both the Special Committee on Termination
of the National Emergency and the Committee on Rules
and Administration and as Co-chairman of both the
Joint Committee on Printing and the Joint Committee
on the Library. Mathias currently practices law
in Washington, D.C. |
 Chair,
Bill Lann Lee, is a partner with the law firm
Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP in
San Francisco. Lee is the former Assistant Attorney
General for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department
of Justice. Lee was an attorney for 17 years with
the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the
law firm founded by Justice Thurgood Marshal. He
headed the Legal Defense Fund’s Western Regional
Office in Los Angeles. Lee is the recipient of numerous
honors and awards, including the ABA Spirit of Excellence
Award (2004), Anti-Defamation League Pearlstein
Civil Rights Award (2002), the U.S. Department of
Justice John Randolph Distinguished Service Award
(2001), and the Pioneer Award from the Organization
of Chinese Americans (2000). |
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Hon.
John H. Buchanan, Chair is an ordained Baptist
minister who served churches in Alabama, Tennessee,
Virginia and Washington, D.C. Buchanan also represented
Birmingham, Alabama, in Congress for sixteen years.
As a senior member of the House Education and
Labor Committee, Buchanan was instrumental in
the writing and passage of Title IX. From the
outset of his career, he worked for and was a
strong proponent of full voting representation
in Congress for the District of Columbia. After
leaving Congress, he chaired the civil liberties
organization, People For the American Way, for
ten years.
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 Chandler
Davidson, Ph.D. is the Radoslav Tsanoff Professor
of Public Policy Emeritus and Research Professor
of Sociology and Political Science at Rice University.
Dr. Davidson has written or edited books and articles
on race politics, and inequality. He was the co-editor
of the Quiet Revolution in the South, a definitive
work on the impact of the Voting Rights Act in the
South. |
 Dolores
Huerta is the co-founder and First Vice President
Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO
(UFW) and President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation.
She helped form the National Farm Workers Association
(NFWA), the predecessor to the UFW, with Cesar Chavez.
In addition to organizing, she has been instrumental
in the passage of legislation allowing voters the
right to vote in Spanish and in lobbying efforts
for the unemployed, underemployed, and farm workers. |
 Elsie
Meeks is the Executive Director of First Nations
Oweesta Corporation, a national financing intermediary
that offers technical assistance and capital to
help Native communities establish community development
financial institutions. Elsie is an enrolled member
of the Oglala Lakota Tribe and was appointed by
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights in 1999 as the first Native American
to serve on the Commission. |
 Charles
Ogletree is the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko
Professor of Law and Vice Dean for the Clinical
Programs. He is the co-author of the award-winning
book, Beyond the Rodney King Story: An Investigation
of Police Conduct in Minority Communities, and the
author of last year’s All Deliberate Speed:
Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v.
Board of Education. Before becoming a professor,
Ogletree was the Deputy Director of the District
of Columbia Public Defender Service and worked in
private practice. Ogletree also has a long record
of commitment and service to public schools and
higher education. |
 Joe
Rogers is a national speaker, lecturer and practicing
attorney in Colorado. In 2003, Rogers completed
his term as the Lieutenant Governor of Colorado,
where he held the distinction of serving as America’s
youngest Lieutenant Governor and only the fourth
African American in U.S. history ever to hold the
position He served as Founding Chairman of the Republican
Lieutenant Governors’ Association and served
on the executive committee of the National Conference
of Lieutenant Governors. |
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Southern
Regional Hearing
Montgomery, Alabama
March 11, 2005
Southwest
Regional Hearing
Phoenix, AZ
April 7, 2005
Northeast
Regional Hearing
New York, New York
June 14, 2005
Midwest
Regional Hearing
Minneapolis, Minnesota
July 22, 2005
South Georgia Hearing
Americus, Georgia
August 2, 2005
Florida
Hearing
Orlando, Florida
80th National Convention of the National Bar Association
August 4, 2005
South
Dakota Hearing
Rapid City, South Dakota
September 9, 2005
Western
Regional Hearing
Los Angeles, California
September 27, 2005
Mid-Atlantic
Regional Hearing
Washington, DC
October 14, 2005
Mississippi
Hearing
Jackson, Mississippi
October 29, 2005
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