The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky is currently accepting applications for three open positions – Reproductive Freedom Project Director, Development Director, and Program Associate.

The ACLU of Kentucky is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to the defense of the Bill of Rights and is an affiliate of the national ACLU.  The ACLU is the nation’s foremost organization in defending and advancing civil rights and civil liberties principles through advocacy, litigation, legislative activities, and public educational programming.

For a full job description and information on how to apply for any of these positions please click these links.

Reproductive Freedom Project Director 

Development Director 

Program Associate 

Dr. Yacoub E. Yacoub

Dr. Yacoub was a great defender of civil rights and most recently served as the chair of Kentucky’s Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee.  He was a founder and former president of the Arab American Association of Louisville and one of the founders of the American Palestine Public Affairs Forum.

He was born in Cairo, Egypt to parents of Palestinian origin.  He graduated from Cairo University and began his professional career in Iraq.  Dr. Yacoub also practiced in Birmingham, England and Boston, MA before settling in Louisville in 1973.  At the time of his retirement he was Chief of Anesthesia at Jewish Hospital.

Board member Djenita Pasic remembers Dr. Yacoub as “An accomplished professional, a great activist, and a wonderful husband, father and friend….I will always treasure our friendship and keep many happy memories of Dr. Yacoub.  He will forever remain a true inspiration to me and certainly many of those who have had the good fortune to know him.”

To celebrate and honor your role in strengthening the committed partnership between the Fairness Campaign and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, Susan Hershberg and the Wiltshire Pantry invite you to an evening of elegant dining and fine music.

Saturday, April 5, 2008
Cocktails – 6:30 p.m.
Dinner – 8:00 p.m.

Muhammad Ali Center
Viewpoint Room
144 N. Sixth St., Louisville MAP

For tickets please call the ACLU office at (502) 582-9746

Tickets to the event are $135, and tables of 8 are $1,080.

How Courts Treat Cases Involving Life and Liberty.

A Talk with Acclaimed Trial Attorney Stephen Bright

Stephen B. Bright, a Danville, KY native, is president and senior counsel of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, a public interest law firm dedicated to enforcing the civil and human rights of people in the criminal justice system in the South. The Center’s legal work includes representing prisoners in challenges to unconstitutional conditions and practices in prisons and jails; challenging systemic failures in the legal representation of poor people in the criminal courts; and representing people facing the death penalty who otherwise would have no representation. Mr. Bright also teaches at Yale Law School. The work of the Center and Bright has been the subject of a documentary film, Fighting for Life in the Death Belt and two books, Proximity to Death by William McFeely and Finding Life on Death Row by Kayta Lezin. Mr. Bright received the national ACLU’s Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty in 1991 and the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award in 1998.

Please join us for this exciting discussion with one of the great legal minds in the nation.

Tuesday, March 25th  11:45 a.m.—1:00 p.m.
Nunn Hall, Room 426
Chase School of Law
Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights
Free Admission.  Reservations Requested
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Sponsored by  the Kentucky Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky.