Shannon Price Minter is the legal director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, one of the nation’s leading legal advocacy organizations for LGBTQ people and their families. Shannon has led NCLR’s legal program for more than twenty years and has litigated dozens of impact cases in federal and state courts, including several U.S. Supreme Court cases. Shannon is one of the most senior transgender litigators in the LGBTQ movement. He is currently overseeing NCLR’s legal challenges to President Trump’s executive orders banning transgender people from military service and forcing all transgender women to be housed in men’s prisons, well as to state laws banning healthcare for transgender youth and barring transgender students from school sports. Shannon was appointed by President Obama to serve on the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships and has twice served on the ABA’s Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. He has been recognized for his work by the National LGBT Bar Association, the DOJ Pride Group, Stanford Law School, Cornell Law School, the National Association of Women Lawyers, and others. Shannon has an B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and a J.D. from Cornell Law School. He lives with is wife Robin and many rescue animals in Texas.