Elizabeth (Beth) McCallum, Board Member

Beth is a partner at Baker Hostetler, where she practices primarily in the areas of commercial and antitrust litigation. Beth has devoted a substantial time to public service work of the course of her career, including representing a class of students attending the Baltimore City public schools in a challenge to the constitutionality of the education provided to those students since 1996; filing numerous amici briefs in the Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal in cases involving the rights of people with disabilities; and successfully challenging a Tennessee statute imposing restrictions on reproductive rights under the Tennessee constitution.

In 2005, she was awarded the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award, given each year to five individual lawyers and institutions in the legal profession that have demonstrated outstanding commitment to volunteer legal services for the disadvantaged. She also serves on the Boards of the David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and the Washington Lawyers Center for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.

Beth serves on the Grant Committee of the Board.