Faegre & Benson Pro Bono Client Writes About Experience on National Center for Lesbian Rights Website

Desiree (Dez) Shelton is an out lesbian and a senior at Champlin Park High School, in Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin School District.  She and her girlfriend, Sarah Lindstrom, were elected to the school's Snow Days royalty court for the winter formal dance. They sued their school district—with the help of lawyers from the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Faegre & Benson LLP—after school officials said they couldn't walk together in the traditional couples' processional for the royalty court at the school-wide Snow Days Pep Fest assembly. The district settled the case, and on Monday, January 31, 2011, the two girls walked in the procession hand in hand as their classmates cheered.

Dez published her side of the story with The National Center for Lesbian Rights.  She called her Faegre & Benson lawyer "fantastic."  Read more.