Christine Parker

Christine Parker

Pronouns: She/her

Senior Staff Attorney

Advocacy

Bio

Christine Parker (she/her) is a Senior Staff Attorney in the Gender, Sexuality, & Reproductive Justice Project at the ACLU of Southern California. She conducts litigation, policy research and advocacy, community education and activist engagement, and media advocacy on the full range of the Project’s issue areas.

Christine was previously a Legal Fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where she helped litigate challenges to abortion restrictions across the country. She also previously served as a Staff Attorney at Disability Rights California and a Legal Fellow at ACLU SoCal. In these roles, she advocated for disability rights through impact litigation, legislative analysis and advocacy, and community engagement.

Christine graduated from the UCLA School of Law with specializations in Public Interest Law and Policy and Critical Race Studies. In her spare time, she volunteers with a kitten rescue group and as a legal observer with the National Lawyers Guild. 

 

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The Court has ruled but much work remains

The Supreme Court issued a historic ruling on June 26, 2015, granting same-sex couples the freedom to marry throughout the United States. As ACLU client Jim Obergefell and his co-plaintiffs stood triumphantly on the Court’s steps, advocates across the country celebrated this victory and the decades of work that brought it to fruition. From filing the very first lawsuit arguing for the freedom to marry in 1970 to representing Edie Windsor in the case that took down the Defense of Marriage Act to being counsel in 16 other federal marriage equality cases since 2013, the ACLU has been at the forefront of the fight for legal recognition of same-sex relationships.