About Stan Pottinger

Stan Pottinger graduated with honors from Harvard College and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School. After practicing law in California, he was appointed Director of the Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and later became Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice. Following service in the Ford Administration, in the spring of 1977 he served as Special Assistant to the Attorney General in the Carter Administration.

Pottinger is a former trustee of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights, and served as a member of the United Nations Association's Advisory Committee for Multilateral Projects. He was a director of NABCO, the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations, and a founding director of Voters for Choice, a non-partisan organization promoting women pro-choice candidates for electoral office.

Pottinger has written for a number of magazines and periodicals and has an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Lincoln University. In 1974, he was named by Time magazine as one of 200 "Future Leaders of America."

Pottinger is the father of three grown children and lives in the New York area.