Jennifer Mathis returns to Bazelon Center following position in Biden administration

Following her position as deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Biden Administration, Jennifer Mathis, longtime mainstay of the Bazelon Center, will be returning as deputy director, the Bazelon Center announced Feb. 3 in a news release. Mathis returns to the Bazelon Center after serving for four years as deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights in the U.S. Department of Justice. See “Bazelon's Mathis joins Biden administration, MHW, Dec. 13, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1002/mhw.33045). Prior to joining the Biden Administration, Mathis worked at the Bazelon Center for 22 years supervising the Center's policy advocacy and litigating complex lawsuits establishing the rights of individuals with mental disabilities. She helped litigate the seminal Olmstead case in the Supreme Court and has litigated ground-breaking integration cases in states across the country, Bazelon Center officials stated. During the Obama Administration, Mathis helped draft regulations implementing the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act and the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act.