Sherrilyn Ifill
Sherrilyn Ifill (born December 17, 1962) is an American lawyer and the Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Endowed Chair in Civil Rights at
Howard University. She is a law professor and former president and director-counsel of the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She was the Legal Defense Fund's seventh president since
Thurgood Marshall founded the organization in 1940. Ifill is a nationally recognized expert on voting rights and judicial selection. In 2021, ''
Time'' named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world on its annual
''Time'' 100 list.
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