Lani Guinier to Join Harvard Law Faculty

President Clinton’s first nominee to the Justice Department’s top civil rights post, C. Lani Guinier, will join the Harvard Law School faculty, the university said.

Guinier, 47, now teaching at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, will become a tenured professor at Harvard in September and will be the first black woman to be a Harvard Law School professor.

Clinton nominated her for the Justice Department post in 1993. He withdrew her nomination after conservatives criticized Guinier over articles she wrote on ways for black voters to increase their influence in elections.