Camilla B. Taylor is the Interim Chief Legal Officer and Eden/Rushing Chair for Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people living with HIV. Taylor previously served as Deputy Legal Director for Litigation, Director of Constitutional Litigation, and Marriage Project Director for Lambda Legal.

Taylor has served as counsel on a variety of cases seeking the freedom to marry, including Obergefell v. Hodges (striking down all remaining laws banning the freedom to marry for same-sex couples); Bogan v. Baskin (striking down Indiana’s marriage ban and holding that all laws targeting people based on their sexual orientation now warrant elevated scrutiny); Robicheaux v. Caldwell (striking down Louisiana’s marriage ban); and Varnum v. Brien (striking down Iowa’s marriage ban). Taylor’s other marriage cases include Darby v. Orr, an Illinois case representing 16 couples seeking to marry in Illinois; Garden State Equality v. Dow, a state court case that won the freedom to marry in New Jersey; Gray v. Orr, a federal suit that obtained an emergency order allowing an Illinois woman with terminal cancer to marry her longtime partner; Lee v. Orr, a federal class action lawsuit that struck down Illinois’s marriage ban as unconstitutional; McGee v. Cole, a federal challenge to West Virginia’s marriage ban; and Jorgensen v. Montplaisir, a federal challenge to North Dakota’s marriage ban.

Other notable cases on which Taylor has served as counsel include Shilling v. United States (challenging the second Trump administration’s ban on military service by transgender people); San Francisco AIDS Foundation v. Trump (protecting nine LGBTQ centers and service organizations from the second Trump administration’s executive orders banning federal grantees and contractors from engaging in diversity, equity, and inclusion practices or acknowledging the reality that transgender people exist); Diversity Center v. Trump (enjoining the first Trump administration’s ban on training and acknowledgement of systemic racism by federal contractors and grantees); County of Santa Clara v. HHS (vacating the first Trump administration’s “Denial of Care” rule that privileged religious objections over patient health care); Karnoski v. Trump(challenging the constitutionality of the first Trump administration’s ban on military service by transgender people); Marouf v. Azar (challenging discrimination in a federal child welfare program against foster parent applicants).

Prior to joining Lambda Legal, Taylor was an attorney with the Criminal Appeals Bureau of the Legal Aid Society of New York City and a litigation associate with Shearman & Sterling. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her B.A. from Yale College. She has taught LGBT Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and the University of Chicago Law School, is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and serves on the American Constitution Society Chicago Chapter Board of Advisors. Recognition of her work includes including into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame, the American Constitution Society’s Ruth Goldman Award, Columbia Law School Public Interest Initiative Distinguished Graduate Award, Laurel School Young Alumna of Distinction, Crain’s Chicago Business’s 40 under 40, and the Matthew Shepard Scholarship Award for Leadership.