Former DC Bar President Named General Counsel of NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has a new general counsel - Kim Keenan, who has served as president of both the National Bar Association and the District of Columbia Bar.

The youngest attorney and second woman to hold this position, Keenan is described as "a leader, a trailblazer and a clear voice for the cause of justice and equality" by NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous.

“Her exceptional skills as a litigator will strengthen NAACP’s ability to continue our historic role of using the law to advance the goals of social justice and transform our nation for the better,” he said in a written statement.

Previously, she was the principal of the Keenan Firm in Washington, D.C., focused on complex medical malpractice litigation, mediation and arbitration, litigation consulting and public speaking. She also serves on the senior adjunct faculty of George Washington University Law Center, where she co-teaches trial and pretrial advocacy and has been a commentator for Fox News.

Based in Baltimore, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization, with more than 500,000 members.

Comments

[ColorBlindJustice]

If the NAACP wants to advance the cause of social justice, it should spend every dime it's got on a multi-year, multi-media campaign against the ongoing and self-dooming catastrophe that is out-of-wedlock child-rearing.

The fact that blacks bear and raise nearly three-quarters of their babies without responsible fathers is primarily why they are the least employed and most incarcerated people in America. And all the lawsuits that the NAACP's dwindling membership dues can buy won't appreciably alter that immutable, inconvenient reality.

[Jenna Greene]

John Payton is with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, a separate organization. He's still there.

There was an interim GC at the NAACP who left to become GC of the Special Olympics last year.

[Jill Smith]

So what happened to her predecessor? (John Payton, I believe). That's newsworthy.