Experts Information

Shannon Price Minter Esq

Expertise:

• Transgender (gender identity, gender expression) issues

Additional Information:

Shannon Price Minter is the Legal Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, one of the nation's leading advocacy organizations for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Shannon was NCLR's lead attorney on Sharon Smith's groundbreaking wrongful death suit and has litigated many other impact cases in California and across the country. In 2005, Minter was one of 18 people to receive the Ford Foundation's "Leadership for a Changing World" award. In 2004, Minter was awarded an Honorary Degree from the City University of New York School of Law for his advocacy on behalf of same-sex couples and their families. He has also received the Anderson Prize Foundation Creating Change Award by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the distinguished national service award from GAYLAW, the bar association for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender lawyers, law students, and legal professionals in Washington, D.C. Minter serves on the boards of Equality California and the Transgender Law & Policy Institute. He received a J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1993.   He is the editor, along with Paisley Currah and Richard Juang, of Transgender Rights (Univ. of Minnesota 2006).