Jennifer C. Pizer is Senior Counsel and Director, Project on Law & Policy at Lambda Legal. During 2011 and 2012, she was Legal Director and Senior Scholar of Law at the Williams Institute, an academic research center on sexual orientation law and public policy at UCLA School of Law. While at UCLA, Pizer authored model legislation concerning marriage for same-sex couples and amicus briefs and policy reports addressing family rights of LGBT people, the needs of LGBT students, and employment discrimination. Before joining UCLA, Pizer was Marriage Project Director at Lambda Legal, where she was co-counsel in numerous cases challenging state restrictions on marriage, the federal “Defense of Marriage Act,” refusals of family health insurance, denials of parenting rights, and unequal access to medical care. Pizer also has co-authored numerous amicus briefs in Hollingsworth v. Perry, including most recently to the U.S. Supreme Court. Pizer frequently advises policymakers about LGBT issues and has taught at USC Law School, Loyola Law School, and Whittier Law School in addition to UCLA. She has received numerous community service and professional achievement awards, including being named seven times among the top women litigators in California. She is a graduate of Harvard College and NYU School of Law, where she was a Hays Fellow, Senior Research Editor of the Review of Law and Social Change, and co-chair of Lesbian & Gay Law Students (which preceded OUTLaw).
Jennifer Pizer is the author of How Has Perry Affected Other Marriage-Rights Strategies? Reflections on a Silver Anniversary and the Golden Rule.
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