April 12, 2021
Elise Boddie, Henry Rutgers Professor, Professor of Law and Judge Robert L. Carter Scholar at Rutgers University–Newark has been appointed by President Biden to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court. She joins other national legal experts who will look at the makeup and size of the Court and its case selection, according to a news release from the White House on Friday, April 9.
Boddie, an award-winning and nationally-recognized civil rights and constitutional scholar, was previously the Director of Litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. and is the founder of The Inclusion Project at Rutgers Law School-Newark. She is engaged with communities, students, faith leaders, educators, and researchers in a multisector initiative to build equitable education systems in New Jersey public schools.