Pamela Price Named Interim Executive Director of
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights

Award-winning civil rights attorney will lead Committee
during search for a permanent Director

Pamela Price, noted civil rights attorney and founder of the Oakland law firm of Price And Associates, has graciously volunteered to serve as Interim Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.  Price has been a Member of the Lawyers’ Committee since 2001 and of its Board of Directors since 2006.  She will lead the premiere civil rights group while it searches for a permanent successor for Maria Blanco.  As the Lawyers’ Committee previously announced, Ms. Blanco will be leaving at the end of July to head the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute for Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. 

“We are very sorry to say good-bye to Maria Blanco, but we’re proud of the fact that such a highly-regarded civil rights attorney as Pamela Price has come forward to take on the position of Interim Director,” said Loren Kieve, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges and Co-Chair of the Lawyers’ Committee Board of Directors.  “With her reputation as a civil litigator specializing in civil rights and her strong history of involvement in the work of the Lawyers’ Committee, she is the ideal person to lead us in this transition.”

Price, a 1982 graduate of Boalt Hall, is well known in the civil rights arena for representing plaintiffs in discrimination cases -- particularly victims of sex and race discrimination.  Her victories at trial and tenacity as a litigator have become legend in the Bay Area legal community. Price has secured large settlements for her clients in several high-profile sexual harassment and racial discrimination cases, including the 2004 settlement of Morgan v. Amtrak.  In this case, which Price successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court, Price won a victory for an African-American electrician who suffered racial discrimination, racial harassment and retaliation by Amtrak’s Oakland Yard managers.

Price has twice received the Charles Houston Bar Association's Clinton W. White Advocacy Award for her achievements in civil litigation.  In 2002, she received a California Lawyer of the Year (CLAY) award for her work on Morgan v. Amtrak.

“I have the highest admiration for the work of the Lawyers’ Committee, and I am thrilled to have this opportunity to work directly with the organization,” said Price.  “It will be an honor to lead such an outstanding staff in their far-reaching work to advance the rights of underserved communities.”

“We are delighted to welcome Pamela Price to the Lawyers’ Committee,” said the Committee’s Legal Director Robert Rubin.  Lawyers’ Committee Co-Chair, Tracy Preston, the Chief Compliance Officer for Levi Strauss & Co., added that “Pamela is a passionate advocate for civil rights and a long-time friend and supporter of the Lawyers’ Committee, and her leadership will be invaluable during our search for a permanent Executive Director.”