Reggie Shuford
Reggie T. Shuford is the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, a position he has held since September 2011. Previously, he served as the director of law and policy at the Equal Justice Society (EJS), a national strategy group heightening consciousness on race in the law and popular discourse. From 1995-2010, he worked as senior staff counsel in the national ACLU's Racial Justice Program where he helped to pioneer legal challenges to racial profiling practices nationwide. He was the ACLU's chief litigator in challenges to racial profiling, leading national litigation efforts in cases of "driving while black or brown," airport profiling, and profiling related to the war on terror.
Reggie attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for both undergraduate and law school. After law school, he clerked for Justice Henry Frye, the first African American Justice and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
Reggie is a former Harvard Law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow and received a certificate in Non-profit Executive Management from Georgetown in 2009. He has won many accolades for his leadership and advocacy, including Philadelphia’s Most Influential African Americans by the Philadelphia Tribune, The Advocate Magazine’s Icons, Innovators, and Disruptors in the category of “Judicial Warrior,” Diverse Attorney of the Year by the Legal Intelligencer, the David M. Rosenblum GLBT Public Policy Award from the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Justice Sonia Sotomayor Diversity Award.