ACLU of Kentucky

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky Foundation (ACLU-KY) seeks a Development Director to manage and significantly expand the fund development program for the ACLU and strengthen the links between the ACLU and its supporters.  Working closely with the Executive Director, the Development Director is responsible for planning, supervising and executing the ACLU of Kentucky’s fundraising strategies.  The Development Director provides leadership to the staff and Board of Directors to reach our annual and long-range fundraising goals and reports to the Executive Director.

With an annual combined budget of $500,000, the ACLU of Kentucky and its Foundation operate jointly as private, non-profit organizations.  We are the state affiliate of the nation’s oldest and largest organization devoted to the protection and advancement of civil rights and civil liberties.  The development program supports the ACLU’s legislative, public education, and legal programs on a broad range of constitutional issues including but not limited to voting rights, abolition of the death penalty, immigrants’ rights, free speech, religious freedom, reproductive rights, and the rights of gay, lesbian bisexual and transgender individuals.

Founded in 1955, the ACLU-KY is located in downtown Louisville but works statewide through volunteer and member engagement.  The ACLU-KY has approximately 3,000 members and supporters.  Our current staff consists of five full-time members.  We are currently undergoing a long-range planning process with designs on organizational expansion to increase our overall impact within Kentucky.  The Development Director position is a crucial link in securing and maintaining significant resources to sustain such an expansion.

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Central Kentucky Civil Liberties Union (CKCLU) Program

 Title:  Civil Liberties Issues Before the U.S. Supreme Court

Date/Time:  Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 7:00 p.m.

Place:   Temple Adath Israel

124 North Ashland Avenue

Lexington, KY 40502

(859) 269-2979

Panelists:

Paul Salamanca

Wyatt, Tarrant and Combs Professor of Law, UK College of Law

Allison Connelly

Director of the UK Legal Clinic and Associate Clinical Professor of Law, UK College of Law

Roberta M. Harding

William L. Matthews Professor of Law, UK College of Law

Nicole Huberfield

Galion & Baker Professor of Law, UK College of Law

CLEs (Continuing Legal Education Units): pending  

Panelist bios:

Paul E. Salamanca

Paul E. Salamanca is the Wyatt, Tarrant and Combs Professor of Law. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1983 and Boston College Law School in 1989, where he was a note editor for the Boston College Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.

Professor Salamanca served as a law clerk to Judge David H. Souter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and subsequently clerked for Justice Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. He practiced law with the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton in New York from 1991 to 1994 and was a visiting assistant professor of law at Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans before joining the faculty at UK in June 1995.

Professor Salamanca writes in the areas of separation of powers, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and privacy. He has published articles on these subjects in the University of Cincinnati Law Review, the Missouri Law Review, the Georgia Law Review and the Kentucky Law Journal, among other places