--- title: Sherrilyn Ifill | TIME description: Sherrilyn Ifill is the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) canonical: https://time.com/author/sherrilyn-ifill/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/sherrilyn-ifill/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Sherrilyn Ifill ## Sherrilyn Ifill Sherrilyn Ifill is the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) ## Sherrilyn Ifill *  Mar 5, 2018 ### [Black Children Will Be the Victims of Armed Teachers](https://time.com/5186040/sherrilyn-ifill-black-children-classroom/) Even though few school shooters have been of color [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 17, 2018 ### [President Trump's First Year Was an Affront to Civil Rights](https://time.com/5106648/donald-trump-civil-rights-race/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 19, 2017 ### [Black Voters in Alabama Mattered Way Before Doug Jones Beat Roy Moore](https://time.com/5071404/alabama-black-voters-doug-jones-roy-moore/) If there’s anything to learn from the Jones-Moore race, it is that black voters care about the direc... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 3, 2016 ### [Sherrilyn Ifill to Vassar Grads: 'Leave Space in Your Life'](https://time.com/4355330/naacp-sherrilyn-ifill-vassar-grads/) The President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund shares her advice for the Class of 201... Meta: {"meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"edges":\[\],"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection"},"twitter\_card":null,"\_\_typename":"Seo"} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/sherrilyn-ifill/","name":"Sherrilyn Ifill"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/sherrilyn-ifill/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/sherrilyn-ifill/"},"name":"Sherrilyn Ifill","jobTitle":"","description":"Sherrilyn Ifill is the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)","url":"https://time.com/author/sherrilyn-ifill/","sameAs":["https://x.com/Sifill_LDF"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```