<span class="vcard">Caroline Fredrickson</span>

Caroline Fredrickson

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Caroline Fredrickson (@crfredrickson) is a Distinguished Visiting Professor from Practice at Georgetown Law and a Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. She served as the President of the American Constitution Society from 2009-2019. In 2021, she was appointed a member of the President’s Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. She also served as the leader of the Progressive Team for the National Constitution Center’s Constitution Drafting Project is a Senior Congressional Fellow at the Stennis Center.

Before joining ACS, Fredrickson served as the Director of the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office and as General Counsel and Legal Director of NARAL Pro-Choice America. In addition, she served as the Chief of Staff to Senator Maria Cantwell, of Washington, and Deputy Chief of Staff to then-Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, of South Dakota. During the Clinton Administration, she served as Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. Fredrickson is currently an elected member of the American Law Institute. Fredrickson received her J.D. from Columbia Law School with honors and her B.A. from Yale University in Russian and East European Studies summa cum laude, phi beta kappa. She clerked for the Hon. James L. Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Fredrickson is a frequent guest on television and radio and regularly contributes to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other news outlets.  She is also the author of “Under The Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over,” “The Democracy Fix: How to Win the Fight for Fair Rules, Fair Courts, and Fair Elections,” and most recently, The AOC Way. She is also on LinkedIn.

Articles by this author:

The front of the White House is seen through a fence.
A golden statue folding the scales of justice appears in front of a U.S. flag.
Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kagan sit in a crowd and watch the State of the Union address. They are both wearing black robes.
A red, white, and blue button that reads "Vote" is shown with an American flag behind it.
The U.S. Supreme Court building lit by sunlight against a blue sky.
The U.S. Supreme Court building lit by sunlight against a blue sky.
Voters enter a polling station at the Zion Baptist Church on January 5, 2021 in Marietta, Georgia. A large sign reads, “Vote Here 7:00am – 7:00pm”
Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) leans in close without a face mask to speak with Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who wears a face mask, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Oversight of the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation" on Capitol Hill on August 5, 2020 in Washington, DC.
William Barr, nominee to be US Attorney General, takes the oath before testifying during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 15, 2019.
People walk on a sidewalk on the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border barrier on January 25, 2019 in San Diego, California.

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