2009 Board Nominees

Brian Barrido is a civil rights and criminal defense attorney with Dvorak, Toppel & Barrido, LLC.  He is a 2001 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law and has worked in the Cook County Public Defender’s office and at the Cochran Firm in California. 

Henry Chandler is a member of the CTA Board and serves as the Board Chair of Access Living, a disability rights organization.  He serves as an Advisory Board member on the Persons with Disabilities Fund at the Chicago Community Trust.  He received a Masters in Computer Science from DePaul University.

Adam Cox is an assistant professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He is a 1999, graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, who clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and also served as a Karpatkin Civil Rights Fellow for the American Civil Liberties Union. His teaching and research interests include voting rights, election law, immigration law, and federal jurisdiction and procedure.

Richard Gleiner is an attorney who moved to Chicago from Texas, where he was involved with the Dallas chapter of the ACLU.  He has been involved with Lambda Legal and HRC and is currently a Freedom Council member of the Roger Baldwin Foundation.

Ruth Krugly is a partner at Schiff Hardin LLP. She is a litigator who represents local governmental bodies including cities and villages, park districts, fire protection districts and other units of local government. She is a 1983 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.

Scott Lassar is a partner at Sidley Austin LLP. Prior to joining the firm, he was the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago, the district’s top federal law enforcement official.   He is a 1975 graduate of Northwestern School of Law.

Elections will take place at the November Board Meeting.