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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Carla Hayden | | | Institution: | Library of Congress | | | Year Elected: | 2020 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions | | | Residency: | resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | | | |
Carla Hayden is currently Librarian of Congress, a position she's held since 2016. She earned her Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of Chicago and worked for two decades at the Chicago Public Library, eventually becoming the Deputy Commissioner and Chief Librarian of the Chicago library system. Between that and the Library of Congress, she worked at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, was a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and was CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.
Carla Hayden is a pioneering librarian who has made knowledge more accessible and useable. She began her career in the children’s department of the Chicago Public Library in the 1970s. Later, as the Executive Director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Hayden's accomplishments included opening the first branch in thirty-five years and raising over $100M to renovate the main building. Her success earned her the Librarian of the Year Award from the American Library Association in 1995. She later served as the ALA’s president. In 2016, Barack Obama nominated Dr. Hayden to be the fourteenth Librarian of Congress. The Senate overwhelmingly approved her appointment. She is the first woman and first African-American to serve.
In addition to being named Librarian of the Year, Carla Hayden was named Ms. Magazine "Woman of the Year" in 2003 and one of Fortune's "The World's 50 Greatest Leaders" in 2016. She won the President's Medal of Johns Hopkins University in 1998. She authored A Frontier of Librarianship: Services for Children in Museums in 1987. Carla Hayden was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2020. | |
| 2 | Name: | Justice Goodwin Liu | | | Institution: | Supreme Court of California | | | Year Elected: | 2020 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions | | | Residency: | resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1970 | | | | | | |
Justice Goodwin Liu is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. Nominated by Governor Jerry Brown, Justice Liu was unanimously confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments and sworn into office on September 1, 2011. He was retained by the electorate in 2014. Before joining the state’s highest court, Justice Liu was Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law. His primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, education law and policy, and diversity in the legal profession.
The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Justice Liu grew up in Sacramento, where he attended public schools. He went to Stanford University and earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1991. He attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and earned a masters degree in philosophy and physiology. Upon returning to the United States, he went to Washington D.C. to help launch the AmeriCorps national service program and worked for two years as a senior program officer at the Corporation for National Service.
Justice Liu graduated from Yale Law School in 1998, becoming the first in his family to earn a law degree. He clerked for Judge David Tatel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then worked as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. He went on to clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during the October 2000 Term. From 2001 to 2003, he worked in the litigation practice of O’Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C.
Justice Liu continues to teach constitutional law as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute. He serves on the Council of the American Law Institute, on the Board of Directors of the James Irvine Foundation, and on the Yale University Council. He has previously served on the California Commission on Access to Justice, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Technology, and Law, the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, and the governing boards of the American Constitution Society, the National Women’s Law Center, and the Public Welfare Foundation. | |
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