Description
Catherine E. Lhamon, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, will join us to discuss the latest developments affecting higher education institutions in the areas of Title VI and Title IX.
Contributors
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Catherine E. Lhamon
Catherine Lhamon recently served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council for Racial Justice and Equity, where she managed the President's equity policy portfolio. Until January 2021, she chaired the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, to which President Obama appointed her in 2016, and served as Legal Affairs Secretary to California Governor Gavin Newsom. Before then, Lhamon was Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, to which President Obama nominated her and the Senate confirmed her in 2013. Lhamon has also litigated civil rights cases at National Center for Youth Law, Public Counsel Law Center, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California. Lhamon taught federal civil rights appeals at Georgetown University Law Center in the Appellate Litigation Program, and clerked for the Honorable William A. Norris on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Born in Virginia and raised in California, Lhamon graduated from Amherst College and Yale Law School. Lhamon, her husband and two teenagers moved from California to Maryland.
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Josh Richards
Josh Richards is a partner at the Philadelphia office of Saul Ewing. He is Vice-Chair of the Firm's Litigation Department and Co-Chair of the firm's Higher Education Practice, which has handled more than a thousand matters of all shapes and sizes for colleges and universities.
Josh approaches his work from a mission-driven perspective and strives to provide practical advice that protects educational institutions without compromising their ability to fulfill their primary purposes. Josh brings this understanding and approach to matters involving employment disputes, student conduct, discrimination/harassment, faculty relations, board governance, financial exigency, accreditation, minors on campus, and civil tort claims, including student death and abuse matters. In addition, he regularly conducts on-site training sessions for higher education clients regarding a variety of compliance issues, including Title IX and the Clery Act.
Josh is a graduate of Middlebury College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He served a three-year term (FY 2019-2022) on the Board of Directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) and is on NACUA's Committee on Program for Annual Conference and its Committee on Honors and Awards.