Interim General Counsel
Angela Ciccolo presently serves as the Interim General Counsel/ Secretary to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The NAACP Office of the General Counsel is the litigation arm of the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. In this capacity, Ms. Ciccolo is responsible for advancing the interests, policies and goals of the NAACP and its members through litigation. The NAACP’s litigation docket includes cases touching all aspects of the civil rights movement, including housing, voting rights, education, criminal justice and the expansion of civil rights protections. In addition, she is responsible for securing the internal corporate interests of the NAACP, including its intellectual property and commercial interests.
Prior to joining the NAACP, Ms. Ciccolo served as an attorney with the law firm of Ashcraft & Gerel in Washington, DC, one of the region’s premiere law firms. In this capacity, Ms. Ciccolo worked as a civil trial attorney practicing in Washington, DC and Maryland, and served on the Board of Governors of the DC Trial Lawyers Association. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the Maryland Bar and the United States Supreme Court Bar.
Her litigation activities have included serving as co-counsel in NAACP v. Harris, which challenged election irregularities following the 2000 Presidential Election; NAACP v. AA Arms, which protested the practices of gun dealers and manufacturers; and NAACP v. Ameriquest, which alleges discriminatory lending practices harm African-American consumers. Ms. Ciccolo was instrumental in creating the NAACP Law Fellow Program which provides law students the opportunity to work at the NAACP Headquarters and to develop leadership skills. In addition, she has negotiated strategic alliance relationships with corporate partners and has brokered substantial civil rights remedial action plans with major corporations. She is responsible for revising and compiling the Association’s Constitution and Bylaws for the 500,000 member organization and for monitoring conflicts of interest, in addition to creating internal training manuals and tools. Ms. Ciccolo's interest in international affairs has allowed her to serve as an international election monitor for the Venezuelan Presidential Election in 2006 and to provide training in Paris, France in 2007 on behalf of the Conseil Representatif des Associations Noirs. Ms. Ciccolo currently serves on the board of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project.
Ms. Ciccolo is the recipient of numerous awards and recognition resolutions for her work. She was named NAACP Staff Lawyer of the Year in 2003 and received the NAACP’s’ highest honor for staff in 2006 when she received the Medgar W. Evers Award for Excellence for Executive Staff. This award is presented annually for excellence, outstanding service, dedication and commitment to the mission of the NAACP. She is a nationally acclaimed speaker on civil rights issues for NAACP branches, colleges and universities and other organizations.
Ms. Ciccolo was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and holds a Bachelors Degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center where she was an Earl Warren Legal Training Program Scholarship recipient and served as the writing program editor for the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review.
Ms. Ciccolo lives in Ashburn, Virginia with her husband Christopher. They have three children, Christopher, Nicholas and Danielle.
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