page_title: Lia Epperson
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Lia Epperson / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Benjamin Todd Jealous, president-elect of the NAACP; his wife, Lia Epperson Jealous, a professor of constitutional law at Santa Clara University; their 2 1/2 year old daughter, Morgan.
context_page_description: Lia Beth Epperson is an American civil rights lawyer and Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law. She previously served as the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs at the law school. Epperson served as Director for Education Litigation and Policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 2001–2005. Her scholarship focuses primarily on federal courts and educational policies with regard to race. Epperson was a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and an Institute of Advanced Studies Fellow at Collegium de Lyon. Epperson has authored multiple amicus briefs for the Supreme Court of the United States related to affirmative action and education law.
context_section_description: Epperson married Benjamin Jealous, the former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in July 2002. Epperson and Jealous met in 1993, when Epperson replaced Jealous as the intern at the New York national office of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Epperson and Jealous have two children together, Morgan and Jack. The couple divorced in 2015. Epperson and Jealous remain amicable, and co-parent their two children. Epperson is the sister of CNBC correspondent Sharon Epperson.
caption: Epperson, Jealous, and their child in 2008
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