Student Congress

The National LGBT Bar Association's Student Congress is the governing body of all the LGBT law student group members of the LGBT Bar. For more information about the Student Congress or to learn how your group can become a member of the LGBT Bar, please contact Ryan Dunn or Craig Konnoth.

Law Student Division Representatives

ABA Law Student Division Chair

Craig Konnoth is a second-year law student at the Yale Law School. He holds a B.A. from Fordham University in Math-Economics and History, and an M.Phil. from Cambridge University in the History of Political Thought. Craig has worked with the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and the ACLU-LGBT Project on various assignments and has clerked for both organizations. At Yale, Craig works as an Activism co-chair for OutLaws, and is working to put together an LGBT Litigation Clinic. His research and writing centers on the early gay rights movement, and international human rights law.

Law Student Competitions Chair

Samuel Pearson-Moore is a second-year law student at American University Washington College of Law (WCL). He holds a BA in Political Science with a minor in Women Studies from Augsburg College. Sam worked as a clerk this past summer at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Pro Se Unit and is currently working at the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office. Sam is currently the president of the WCL Lambda Law Society, a member of the American University International Law Review, and a member of the ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition. Before attending law school, Sam served in the United States Army Reserves for eight years, which included a deployment to Iraq in 2003, and worked as an Office & Program Manager of the Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest.