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EJS
Board of Directors Selects
Anthony Solana, Jr. as New Chairperson
 SAN
FRANCISCO (Dec. 17, 2007) - The Equal Justice Society today announced
that its board has selected Anthony Solana, Jr. as its new chairperson,
effective immediately.
EJS
is a national advocacy organization strategically advancing social
and racial justice through law and public policy, communications
and the arts, and alliance building.
Solana,
an attorney with the Los Angeles office of Winston & Strawn
LLP, and an EJS board member since 2003, succeeds Harvard Law
School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
as chair.
"I'm
delighted that Anthony will assume the role as Chair of EJS. He
has a remarkable ability to build a strong consensus among people
fighting for more equality and fairness," said Professor
Ogletree, EJS's inaugural chair. "He is the right person
to lead EJS at this critical time in our journey."
"Anthony
has been with us from the inception of EJS and brought to the
board a tenacity for justice, strong leadership and the belief
that the law can be used to ensure opportunities for the disenfranchised
and oppressed," said Eva Paterson, co-founder and president
of EJS. "We're enormously proud to have him as our board
chair."
Solana
is also president and chair of For People of Color, Inc., an organization
he founded to empower people of color wanting to enter the legal
profession.
He
is the author of "A Guide to the Law School Application Process
For People of Color" and "A Guide to the Bar Examination
For People of Color" and a motivational speaker, frequently
enlisted to be the keynote at numerous events, including law school
admissions workshops, bar examination workshops, academic support
programs and commencement ceremonies.
In
the Los Angeles office of Winston & Strawn LLP, Solana practices
in the areas of complex commercial litigation, internal investigations
and general business disputes. He was formerly an attorney with
Morrison & Foerster LLP. He focuses his pro bono practice
to immigration and international human rights matters. The Lawyers'
Committee for Civil Rights recently awarded Solana the Father
Cuchulain Moriarity Award, which recognizes an attorney who has
made an extraordinary contribution to the organization's asylum
program.
Solana
also serves as a board member of the Greenlining Academy Alumni
Association, which recently recognized him as its "Alumnus
of the Year."
Solana
received his Juris Doctor from the University of California Los
Angeles School of Law where he served as the co-chair of the Seventh
Annual National Latina/o Law Student Conference and was a founding
member of the National Latina/o Law Student Association. He received
numerous accolades, including the University of California Regents'
Scholarship, American Bar Association Legal Opportunity Scholarship,
Los Angeles County Bar Association Diversity Scholarship and Mexican
American Bar Foundation Scholarship.
Solana
was involved in creating the "Preserving Diversity in Higher
Education" manual on admissions policies and procedures after
the University of Michigan decisions. His progressive views on
equal educational opportunities have been chronicled in the Wall
Street Journal, California Law Review, and L.A.
Weekly.
Solana
received his B.A. in Political Science and History, with honors,
from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the first
person in his family to attain a college degree and Juris Doctor.
Anthony, however, is proudest of the fact that he was born and
raised in East Los Angeles, California.
In
addition to Solana, Ogletree and Paterson, the other members of
EJS's board include: John Bonifaz (Legal Director, Voter Action),
James J. Brosnahan (Senior Partner, Morrison & Foerster),
Kate Kendell (Executive Director, National Center for Lesbian
Rights), Margaret M. Russell (Professor of Law, Santa Clara University
School of Law), Tobias Wolff (Professor of Law, University of
Pennsylvania Law School) and Eric Yamamoto (Professor of Law,
University of Hawai`i School of Law).
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