NAACP Legal Defense Fund honor

Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman, third from right, was honored Nov. 6 by the NAACP for his role in defending affirmative action in higher education. Lehman, former dean of the Michigan Law School, is shown holding his LDF award, after the ceremonies at the NAACP-LDF 2003 National Equal Justice Award dinner at the Hilton New York in Manhattan. Flanking the president, from left, are: Alfre Woodard, actress and the evening's mistress of ceremonies; Tasheika Hinson Coleman, J.D./M.P.P. candidate at the University of Michigan Law School; Elaine R. Jones, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) president and director-counsel; Eleanor S. Applewhaite '59, former Cornell alumni-elected trustee and NAACP-LDF treasurer and board member; and Theodore M. Shaw, LDF associate director-counsel. The night's other LDF award winners included University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman; former Michigan President Lee C. Bollinger (now president of Columbia University); and General Motors. Gligor 'G' Tashkovich '87, JGSM '91