LWVS Holds Annual Food For Thought Luncheon

The Scarsdale League of Women
Voters will hold its Annual Fall Food for Thought Luncheon Meeting on Friday,
October 18, 2013 at the Scarsdale Golf Club, from 11:45 AM through 2 PM. The
event is open to the public.

This year’s speaker will be David
J. Kennedy, the Chief of the Civil Rights Unit, U.S. Attorney’s Office,
Southern District of New York.  Mr. Kennedy will discuss the nature and
scope of the federal Voting Rights Act, and its relationship with state
election laws.

In his capacity as Civil Rights
Chief, Kennedy oversees litigation enforcing the Americans with Disabilities
Act, the Fair Housing Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, the Civil Rights of
Institutionalized Persons Act, and other statutes. He was personally involved
in the successful challenge to the Village of Port Chester’s at-large system of
election, and litigation against Westchester and Orange Counties resulting in
language assistance to Spanish-speaking voters. 

Mr. Kennedy graduated from Harvard
College and Yale Law School.  After graduating from Yale Law School, he
clerked for the Honorable Kimba M. Wood of the Southern District of New York,
then the Honorable Wilfred Feinberg of the Second Circuit.  Mr. Kennedy
became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in 2000, and was promoted to Civil Rights
Chief in 2007.