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Sherrilyn Ifill served as the 7^th president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) from 2013 to 2022. She was the second woman to lead LDF, Ifill began her career as a Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union, before joining the staff of the LDF as an assistant counsel in 1988. Her 2007 book “On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century,” is credited with laying the foundation for contemporary conversations about lynching and reconciliation. Ifill was recently named one of TIME Magazine’s Women of the Year and was honored with a 2021 Spirit of Excellence Award by the American Bar Association. She will receive the prestigious Brandeis Medal, named for Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, and the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award later this year.