Civil Rights Litigation Leader & National Legal Director at ACLU; Supreme Court Advocate; Former Federal Public Defender

San Francisco, CA, USA
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Cecillia Wang Biography

Cecillia Wang serves as the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, overseeing more than 200 lawyers and support staff in the national ACLU's legal department and collaborating with legal staff across the organization's 54 state affiliates. Wang is the first woman and the first woman of color to hold the position of top lawyer at the ACLU, leading the organization's work in the Supreme Court of the United States and shaping its civil rights litigation strategy.

Wang began her legal career at the ACLU as a fellow before working as an attorney with the federal public defender's office for the Southern District of New York and at the San Francisco law firm Keker & Van Nest. She is a graduate of Yale Law School, where she served as an articles editor for The Yale Law Journal. Wang clerked for retired Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the Supreme Court of the United States, working in the chambers of Justice Stephen G. Breyer, and for Judge William A. Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She has also taught immigration law as an adjunct lecturer at Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley.

Returning to the ACLU as a staff attorney, Wang advanced to leadership roles, including deputy legal director and director of the Center for Democracy. In these positions, she directed the ACLU's work on immigrants' rights, voting rights, national security, human rights, and issues related to speech, privacy, and technology. Wang played a key role in legal challenges to federal policies on the Muslim ban, border wall, family separation, and the addition of a citizenship question to the census. Earlier, she contributed to a class action lawsuit addressing racial profiling and illegal detentions by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.

Wang has argued appeals before the Supreme Court of the United States and multiple U.S. Courts of Appeals, including the Second, Fourth, Ninth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits, and has tried cases in several U.S. District Courts. She presented arguments in the Supreme Court case "Trump v. Barbara," which addressed birthright citizenship and executive authority on immigration. The ACLU, under her leadership, has filed numerous lawsuits on issues such as birthright citizenship, immigration enforcement, racial profiling by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, discrimination against transgender individuals, and the termination of federal scientific research grants.

Wang has been recognized by Forbes' "50 Over 50" list and has received honors from institutions including the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt law schools, Sierra Club, National Lawyers Guild, California Rural Legal Assistance, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association of Yale Law School, and Asian American Bar Association of the San Francisco Bay Area. She has spoken on constitutional law and civil liberties at Yale Law School's Human Rights Workshop and the Commonwealth Club of California, addressing the ACLU's legal strategies for defending civil rights and liberties.

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