Crystal Fryman joined the ACLU of Kentucky in 2023 as a staff attorney and is proud to be a recent addition to the ACLU of Kentucky's legal team. Crystal earned her bachelor's degree from Tulane University, her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, and her LL.M. in tax from NYU School of Law. At UCLA she received a Masin Family Academic Excellence Award in Constitutional Law.
Before joining the ACLU of Kentucky, Crystal worked in private practice at McKool Smith in Dallas, TX and at Michelman & Robinson in Los Angeles, CA. Her prior experience includes volunteering at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles’ self-help center in Santa Monica, the Homeless Advocacy Project in San Francisco and serving as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for foster children in Los Angeles County. She moved to Kentucky in 2018 to clerk for the Honorable Magistrate Judge Lindsay and then subsequently clerked for the Honorable Judge Beaton and the Honorable Judge Jennings.