MEMBERS OF THE 2021 FEDERAL NOMINATIONS ADVISORY COMMISSION

Chairwoman Leah Ward Sears, former Georgia Supreme Court chief justice and currently a partner at Smith, Gambrell & Russell

Jason Carter, former state senator, former Democratic candidate for governor, President Jimmy Carter’s grandson and a partner at Bondurant, Mixson and Elmore

Cathy Cox, dean and professor at Mercer University School of Law Mawuli Davis, a civil rights lawyer and human rights organizer based in Decatur

Allegra Lawrence Hardy, senior adviser to Fair Fight Action and a founding partner of Lawrence & Bundy, a commercial litigation firm Jeff Horst, managing partner of the Krevolin & Horst law firm in Atlanta Francys Johnson, a civil rights attorney, pastor and educator in Statesboro who previously served as president of the Georgia NAACP Suzy Ockleberry, former assistant vice president and attorney for AT& T and member of Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ Police Use of Force Advisory Council

Herbert Phipps, who retired from the Georgia Court of Appeals in 2016 and also held other judgeships in Dougherty County

Shyam Reddy, chief administrative officer, general counsel, corporate secretary and a senior vice president at Bluelinx Corp.

Pamela Peynado Stewart, an attorney and partner at the Lee & Peynado Immigration Law Group

Dwight Thomas, a criminal defense attorney based in Atlanta and former civil rights attorney for the U. S. Department of Education

Sara Totonchi, executive director of the Southern Center for Human Rights

Michael Warshauer, past president of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and the Northside Atlanta Jaycees

James Woodall, who is based in Riverdale and is the youngest person ever elected to serve as president of the Georgia NAACP

Andrea Young, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia and daughter of former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young