ACLU leader, Howard Simon, announces retirement.
After four years of civil rights advocacy, Howard Simon, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, is taking a well earned retirement! He will stay on until after the November elections, giving the organization time to appoint a new executive director. Undoubtedly his commitment to civil rights will continue even if he’s not in the leadership role.
The ACLU, under Howard’s leadership, has stood behind FAC and so many other organizations in our State. We thank him for his service to this important organization and all he’s done!
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Dear Christopher,
I want to share with you – the members and supporters of the ACLU in Florida – that I will be retiring as Executive Director of the ACLU of Florida.
It is time to pass the torch to new and younger leadership. For more than four decades I have been entrusted to lead the ACLU in two states. I can’t imagine a better job than being responsible for working to make the promise of freedom a reality for all and fighting back against the policies of those who abuse their power by violating human rights. This has not only been the opportunity of a lifetime, and a wonderful, exciting and rewarding career – for the last 44 years, the ACLU has been my life.
FOR LIFE!
Civil Liberties? First Florida Vice Principles allowed to beat my backside with ,sawed down the middle, baseball bat. Now allowed too brand me an outcast from a two year probabation. State Liberties!!
FOR LIFE!
It was four decades