CCR Annual Report 2005 - Center for Constitutional Rights

Jules Lobel
Board Member
Shayana
Kadidal
Staff Attorney
Sue Lee
Troutman
CCR Vice President Jules Lobel has been a cooperating attorney with the Center for over 20
years and has been on the Board of Directors since 1986. Recently, Jules has been involved
in CCR’s work on rendition, Guantánamo, enemy combatants and unlawful detention. He
successfully argued the Supermax prison case championing prisoners’ rights before the
Supreme Court this spring. Since 1983, Jules has been a professor at the University of
Pittsburgh Law School. His book, Success without Victory, is in large part about his litigation
with CCR.
“CCR is a unique organization because of its willingness to take risks in litigating for justice
and take cases other groups might see as too difficult. I value the Center most because it
views its litigation as an integral part of the overall progressive political movement.”
Shane is CCR’s William M. Kunstler Racial Justice Attorney and began at the Center as a volunteer
in 2001. He graduated from Yale Law School, worked for the High Court of Karnataka
in Bangalore, India, and clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Shane works on CCR’s Patriot Act case and testified before Congress this spring on the material
witness statute. He also works on Turkmen v. Ashcroft, representing people swept up on
immigration charges after 9/11; with the Vulcan Society of Black Firefighters challenging
discriminatory hiring policies of the FDNY; and with the Sikh Coalition against religious discrimination
by New York’s Transit Authority, among other cases.
“CCR is incredibly diverse and engaging—I work on employment discrimination, wrongful
detention and the First Amendment all at the same time. I get to fight the war for justice on
all fronts.”
Sue Lee brings the different parts of the CCR community together. She travels with the
Center’s attorneys and board members to meet with donors and supporters all over the
country. She is in charge of regional development for CCR and is involved in local New York
events, as well. She received her undergraduate degree from U.C. Berkeley, an M.A. in political
science from Columbia University and an M.A. in international relations from U.C.L.A.
Sue Lee also manages CCR’s planned giving program, the Thelma Newman Society.
“I am constantly amazed by CCR’s donors, whose stories of activism and incredible life
experiences inspire me, not only professionally, but in my personal life, as well. Working at
the Center has been so much more than just a job – it has truly been a calling, and I consider
myself very privileged to work with so many wonderful people.”
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