Mary Frances Berry
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Mary Frances Berry is an American historian, writer, lawyer, activist and professor who focuses on U.S. constitutional and legal, African-American history. Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of
Berry in 2014
Berry circa 1988
Peter Kirsanow
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Peter N. Kirsanow is a lawyer and civil-rights commissioner serving as the chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a member of
Mary Frances Berry
…Victoria Wilson, her editor at Alfred A. Knopf, to the commission. In 2001, she and the Democratic board members of the commission barred the seating of Peter Kirsanow, who had been appointed by President George W. Bush to replace Wilson on the commission. Berry and the Democratic bloc argued that Wilson was entitled…
Official portrait, 2006