Kaplan Educational Foundation Honors Danielle Conley - 2024 Gala

The Kaplan Educational Foundation honors Danielle Conley for her work addressing the nuanced challenges of racial, gender, and LGBTQ equity.

Danielle Conley is a litigation partner in the Washington DC office of Latham & Watkins where she leads the firm’s Anti-Discrimination & Civil Rights practice. Prior to joining Latham, Ms. Conley served as Deputy Counsel to President Biden where she established and led the first-ever White House Counsel’s Office team dedicated to civil rights and advancing racial, gender, and LGBTQ equity. In that role, she advised the President, Vice President, and other senior White House officials on legal issues related to voting and democracy, policing and criminal justice reform, reproductive rights, tech accountability, and judicial nominations. Ms. Conley even helped shepherd Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination and confirmation to the US Supreme Court.

During the Obama administration, Ms. Conley served as Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice, where she worked on a wide range of litigation and policy issues and managed some of the agency’s most significant and high-profile civil rights enforcement matters.
Ms. Conley currently chairs Latham’s Women Enriching Business (WEB) Committee, is a Director of the Graham Holdings Company, and has served on several nonprofit boards, including for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Ms. Conley has garnered well-deserved recognition for her work in the public and private sector, including from the National Law Journal, the Washington Business Journal, the Diversity Journal, the Root, and Essence Magazine.