EquityLaw

Continuing Legal Eduation advances professional development, it encourages leadership in and throughout your team, and maybe most importantly, it identifies issues among your talent pool before they rise to the level of problems. 

D’Arcy Kemnitz brings more than two decades of non-profit and social justice experience to her presentation. She dedicated more than 20 years to building her former organization, the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association.  Under her leadership, the Bar became the largest and most recognized organization of LGBTQ+ legal professionals in the country. In addition to orchestrating a coalition of more than 50 local, state, and regional LGBTQ+ bar associations, and dozens of LGBTQ+ law student associations. D’Arcy oversaw the phenomenal growth of the annual “Lavender Law” Conference and Career Fair beginning with a few hundred attendees in the 1990s, and culminatimg in last year’s total attendance of more than 1,900 law students, practitioners, professors and judges. 

D’Arcy is a frequently quoted expert on LGBTQ+ legal issues, appearing in media outlets including The ABA Journal, ABC News, Time Magazine, and others. She is a distinguished graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Hamline University School of Law. She has experience speaking on a number of issues related to LGBTQ+ rights and the law and is available to speak at future events.