ABOUT US

Victoria Middleton, Executive Director

On staff since October 2008, Victoria is the director of all ACLU SC National Office programs, including public education, legislative advocacy, and litigation.

Prior to joining the ACLU, she was director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Asian and Western Hemisphere Affairs in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. There she led a team of regional experts who implemented democracy strategies aimed at training journalists, supporting free and fair elections, promoting transparency and the rule of law, and encouraging internet access in countries including China, Vietnam, and Cuba. She has also been Director of the Office of Nordic and Baltic Affairs in the European Bureau. In her State Department career, she served at U.S. Embassies in the Philippines, India, Estonia, the Czech Republic, and Finland.

Victoria is a graduate of Pennsylvania’s Bryn Mawr College and has an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She has taught at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and at Fudan University in Shanghai. She is the mother of a son who is a student at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Susan Dunn, Staff Attorney

Prior to joining the ACLU South Carolina National Office, Susan worked in private practice in Charleston for more than 30 years. For 12 years beginning in the mid-1990’s, Dunn litigated a high-profile and groundbreaking constitutional case challenging a policy mandating the testing of pregnant and postpartum women at a public hospital for cocaine use, and the delivery of those test results to law enforcement. Dunn’s clients ultimately won a favorable ruling in the United States Supreme Court that led to a settlement of the case.

Susan was the 1998 recipient of the Jean Galloway Bissell Award, presented annually by the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association to a person who has contributed to the advancement of women in the practice of law in South Carolina.

Susan received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and her J.D. from the University of NC – Chapel Hill. She is an active member of Circular Congregational Church in Charleston, where she served as a lay minister from 1999-2009.

Jan Landry, Office Manager

In her role as office manager, Jan handles the accounting, office administration, program and event planning and communications – including web site updates, the monthly e-newsletter and the ‘paper’ newsletter.

Jan joined the ACLU SC staff in September 2008. Prior to that, she was Finance and Communications Manager for Wild Dunes Community Association on the Isle of Palms where she oversaw office administration, accounting, website management, newsletter production, and community events.

She also worked as a civilian facilitator with the US Navy’s Personal Responsibility Values Education and Training (PREVENT) program and was a partner in a travel and travel training business in North Carolina.

Jan attended St. Mary’s College in Raleigh, the American Institute in Aix-en-Provence, France, and graduated from the University of NC-Chapel Hill.