June 6, 2026
Katie Wolfe, of counsel in our Civil Rights & Employment practice, received the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs Wiley A. Branton Award.
The award was presented to Katie, a former career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and other former career attorneys by former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former Acting U.S. Attorney General Peter Keissler. Katie gave remarks on behalf of her former Justice Department colleagues.
The Wiley A. Branton Award is annually bestowed upon members of the legal community whose careers embody a deep and abiding commitment to civil rights and economic justice advocacy.
Wiley A. Branton was a tireless advocate for civil rights and equal justice throughout his entire career – as a private practitioner in Arkansas, a leader of federal agencies in Washington, and a Dean of the Howard University School of Law. Among his notable services to the United States, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Wiley Branton to lead the President’s Council on Equal Opportunity and then to work on the implementation of the Civil Rights Act as special assistant to the United States Attorney General.