(CNN) Lani Guinier, a legal scholar and champion for voting rights who was once nominated to be assistant attorney general by then-President Bill Clinton , died on Friday, her cousin, Sherrie Russell-Brown, confirmed to CNN. degree from Yale Law School in 1974, followingClintonwho graduated in '73. At the time of her death, Guinier was a tenured professor at Harvard Law School, where she was the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, Emerita. A mother of the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act. Guinier is survived by her husband, son, daughter-in-law, stepdaughter, grandchild, sisters and nephews, according to the Yale Law School statement.

Source: CNN January 08, 2022 22:09 UTC