Caroline Fredrickson

Caroline Fredrickson is the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington legislative office. She is the organization’s top lobbyist, and supervises the nearly 60-person Washington legislative team in promoting ACLU priorities in Congress, the White House and federal agencies. Prior to joining the ACLU, Fredrickson was the general counsel and legal director for NARAL Pro-Choice America. Fredrickson also has years of experience as a senior staffer on Capitol Hill. She served as chief of staff for Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and as deputy chief of staff to Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.). In 1998 and 1999, she was a special assistant to President Clinton for legislative affairs. Fredrickson has published on topics including labor law and German and American anti-discrimination law in the Brooklyn Journal of Law & Policy, Columbia Law Review, the New York Times and Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. Fredrickson graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and received her law degree from Columbia University, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and received the Emil Schlesinger Prize for her proficiency in labor law. At Columbia, she served on the Columbia Law Review and co-founded the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law.