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- Birth nameCarol Lani Guinier
- Lani Guinier was the daughter of a Jamaican-born father who was appointed chairman of Afro-American Studies at Harvard in 1969. She attended Radcliffe College and Yale Law School and was a civil rights attorney for more than ten years, as part of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and serving in the Civil Rights Division during the Carter Administration. She was also a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Guinier first came to public attention in 1993 when President Clinton nominated her to be the first black woman to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. But immediately after her name was put forward in 1993, conservatives attacked Guinier's views on democracy and voting (including affirmative action, gender equity, and racial districting), driving Clinton to withdraw her nomination without a confirmation hearing.
Guinier joined the faculty at Harvard Law School in 1998, becoming the first black woman tenured professor in that school's history.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpouseNolan Bowie(1986 - January 7, 2022) (her death, 1 child)
- Children
- Received a J.D. degree from Yale University in 1974. Her upperclassman was future President Bill Clinton who graduated in 1973.
- Received a B.A. from Radcliffe College.
- Was nominated in 1993 to be assistant attorney general by President Bill Clinton to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. It was met with a swift rebuke from the Republican Party due to her support for affirmative action and consequently failed.
- Until her death she was a tenured professor at Harvard Law School, where she was the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, Emerita. She was the first woman of color to be appointed a tenured professor at the law school.
- Taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for ten years. Her scholarship covered the professional responsibilities of public lawyers, the relationship between democracy and the law, the role of race and gender in the political process, college admissions and affirmative action.
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