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Kristen Clarke, a civil rights lawyer for the New York Attorney General’s office, will become the new president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the organization said Thursday.

“This is an incredibly important moment” for the civil rights movement, Clarke told The National Law Journal. “We’ve seen incredible progress,” she said, but there are “stark reminders” of civil rights work remaining to be done in criminal justice, voting rights, housing and employment.

Clarke, 40, heads the New York AG’s Civil Rights Bureau and previously worked at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. At the legal defense fund in 2011, she argued in Washington federal district court in the Shelby County, Alabama, voting rights case that eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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