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Howard Simon

Executive Director, ACLU of Florida

Howard Simon has been a state affiliate Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for four decades. He has served as Executive Director of the ACLU of Florida since October 1997. Prior to his appointment as Executive Director of the Florida ACLU affiliate, he served as Executive Director of ACLU’s Michigan affiliate for 23 years.

Simon was raised in New York, and graduated from the City College of New York. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota in legal and political philosophy and social ethics. Prior to his work with the ACLU, was a member of the faculty of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at DePauw University in Indiana.

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