President Joe Biden has named a legal advocate for LGBTQ rights and a St. Louis Planned Parenthood executive to serve in his administration.
Suzanne Goldberg, who started her career in sexuality and gender law at Lambda Legal, will serve the Biden administration in the Department of Education as deputy assistant secretary for strategic operations and outreach at the Office for Civil Rights.
Metroweekly reported Goldberg is the founding director of the Columbia Law School’s Sexuality & Gender Law Clinic and codirector of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law.
The report noted Goldberg has advocated for LGBTQ rights in the areas of immigration, employment, and family law, and that, while working at Columbia, she filed briefs “in nearly every marriage equality case in the United States.”
Congratulations to Lambda Legal alum Suzanne Goldberg—the Biden Administration's new Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education.https://t.co/8qiNCJkJaB
— Lambda Legal (@LambdaLegal) January 22, 2021
Where are all of these fruitcakes coming from?!