Bernard S. Cohen, a retired trial lawyer and former 16-year member of the Virginia House of Delegates, litigated Loving together with co-counsel, Philip J. Hirschkop, the ACLU, and the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund (NAACP LDF). Evan Wolfson, litigated the Baehr case together with co-counsel, Dan Foley, and is now Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, the gay and non-gay partnership working to end marriage discrimination nationwide, and author of Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry.