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.
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