Lawyers' Committee names new executive

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a Boston nonprofit dedicated to combating race and national-origin discrimination, has named Norma D'Apolito, a former associate dean at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, its new executive director.

D'Apolito has also worked as a litigator for Greater Boston Legal Services and the Legal Aid Society in New York, where she handled class-action lawsuits on behalf of prisoners, juveniles, indigents and the mentally ill, and as a prosecutor for the Pennsylvania attorney general's office.
(By Sacha Pfeiffer, Globe staff)