State of New Jersey

Director of the Division on Civil Rights

		Chinh Q. Le Director

Chinh Q. Le, a former assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and practitioner-in-residence at Seton Hall University School of Law's Center for Social Justice, was appointed director of the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights by Attorney General Anne Milgram. His nomination was confirmed by the New Jersey Commission on Civil Rights.

Le, who was also an adjunct associate research scholar at Columbia University School of Law, began his civil rights career with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he litigated cases related to education, school integration, voting rights and affirmative action. At Seton Hall Law School, his areas of focus included affordable housing, mortgage fraud, tenant rights and charter schools. He worked on initiatives for the Urban Revitalization Project and supervised students in the Civil Litigation Clinic and the law schools extern and pro bono programs.

Le received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. He also holds a masters degree in American government from the University of Virginia.

Upon graduation from law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Wilmington, Delaware. Between 2006 and 2008, he was in private practice at the law firm of Jenner & Block LLP.


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