Program

2021 Higginbotham Leadership Awards Program Journal. Click here to download.

Host and Distinguished Honorees

Damon Hewitt

President and Executive Director, Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law

Biography

Laura Coates

CNN Legal Analyst and SiriusXM Talk Show Host

Biography

Soldedad O'Brien

Award Winning Journalist and CEO, Startfish Media Group

Biography

Award Recipients

Hon. Keith Ellison

Minnesota Attorney General

Biography

Renee Montgomery

Two-Time WNBA Champion, Atlanta Dream Vice President and Part-Owner

Biography

Brian Moynihan

Chairman of the Board and CEO, Bank of America

Biography

Hon. Stacey Plaskett

U.S. Representative Virgin Islands

Biography

Kevin Warren

Commissioner, Big Ten Conference

Biography

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights

Fight for Justice and Equal Opportunity

About Us

The principal mission of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is to secure equal justice for all through the rule of law, targeting in particular the inequities confronting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities. The Lawyers' Committee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to enlist the private bar's leadership and resources in combating racial discrimination and the resulting inequality of opportunity – work that continues to be vital today.

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