Prior to her retirement at the end of 2014, Paulette Sullivan Moore served as the Vice President of Public Policy for the National Network to End Domestic Violence in Washington DC.  In that capacity, Ms. Moore led the federal policy and budgeting agenda for the 56 state and territorial domestic violence coalitions, their 2,300 domestic violence programs and the millions of victims who depended upon the strength of a national advocacy voice.  Her responsibilities included working with Congress, the Federal Administration and a wide range of for-profit and nonprofit stakeholders and an effort to pursue effective approaches to ending the complex and multi-faceted phenomenon known as domestic violence.   

Ms. Moore is credited with leadership in crafting the 2013 iteration of the Violence Against Women Act, acting as Amici in the U.S. Supreme Court's U.S. v. Castleman and Elonis v. U.S. cases,  appearing as a guest on radio and television programs such as C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and engaging as a speaker/presenter/participant on a variety of domestic violence forums, committees, think tanks and working groups. 

Before her time in Washington, DC, Ms. Moore served for ten years as Director of Public Policy for the Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence.  In that capacity she worked at the state and local levels with domestic violence advocates, jurists, prosecutors, public defenders, civil attorneys, law enforcement, legislators, local and state government administrators, medical and academic professionals, clergy and survivors to continuously heed the needs of victims and determine the most effective approaches to working as a coordinated community to ensure the safety of domestic violence victims and their children. Following an undergraduate professor’s sage advice that she could change employment as often as she chose, Ms. Moore also  served as a prosecutor with the Delaware Department of Justice,  an Assistant Solicitor with the City of Wilmington,  an attorney in private practice, a Managing Attorney and Deputy Director with Community Legal Aid Society, and as New Castle County’s Recorder of Deeds.  

During the course of her career, Ms. Moore served on the Delaware Bar Associations’ Executive Committee, actively participated in the Women and the Law Section and was a member of the Family Law Section, the Delaware Barristers and the ACLU Board of Directors.  In retirement she continued to actively participate on the advocacy committees of two non-profit organizations and serve as a Reading Assist tutor.   Prior to that Paulette’s  volunteer efforts included serving as an Attorney Guardian Ad Litem for the Office of the Child Advocate, providing “reading coaching” to a middle school student who went on to successfully graduate from high school, convincing Baylor Prison and local tennis pros to provide lessons for the institution’s residents on the prison’s loading dock, and learning how to play chess by serving as an assistant to an upper elementary school volunteer chess instructor.  

Ms.Moore has been the grateful recipient of a number of accolades and awards. Some of those awards include the Delaware Barristers Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award, the Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s Vision of Peace Award, Widener University School of Law’s  Martin Luther King, Jr. Service Award, Induction into the Delaware Women’s Hall of Fame, a Proclamation from the State of Delaware for being the first African-American Woman to be admitted to the Delaware Bar, and even – from the City of Wilmington – a presentation of the Keys to the City and a Proclamation designating February 13, 2018 as “Paulette Sullivan Moore, Esq. Day”.   

Significantly, Ms. Moore, as a 1976 graduate of Rutgers University School of Law and a 1973 cum laude graduate of Wheaton College (Mass.), wants it to be known that she proudly hails from Chester’s Bennett Homes, Southbridge's Extension, Wilmington's Eastside, and the womb of a courageous and determined 15 year old mother. 

Dr. Beverley Baxter
Human Rights Activist

While a college student, Beverley and her husband got a scholarship to study with the World Council of Churches’ Graduate School of Ecumenical Studies in Switzerland and spent 6 months living with students from 19 different countries and 15 different religious backgrounds.  Then, in conjunction with that program, they spent a summer in Africa, including working in student voluntary work camps and two weeks in South Africa where, first an Anglican minister, then an Afrikaans minister, gave them intense initiations into South Africa’s Apartheid shortly after Nelson Mandela was sent to Robben Island.  Not fully appreciating the consequences if they had been caught, they carried papers out of South Africa for anti-apartheid activist Beyers Naudé.

After graduation, including her first Master’s, Beverley and her husband were headed back to South Africa to work against apartheid when Beyers Naudé was put under house arrest.  Thwarted, they were invited by friends to stay with them in Wilmington until they determined their next moves.  Beverley was immediately accepted into the graduate program at UD and there earned her second Master’s and Ph.D.  At the same time, she was engaged in what had become a life-long commitment to human rights, especially women’s rights, both internationally and here at home.

She became the first Co-Chairperson of DE NOW, set the precedent in Delaware for a woman to take back her name after marriage (a story there!), and worked continuously for women’s rights, including joining the effort to get the Equal Rights Amendment passed in Delaware (though not nationally yet!).  She worked on the South African Disinvestment Campaign and served in leadership roles on the Board of an international human-rights organization, then has continued working via its Stewardship Circle for 40 years.  She served in leadership roles on the Board of HBCU Wiley College (Home of The Great Debaters), on the YWCA Delaware Board including as Finance Chair, as President for 14 years of the International Women’s Forum Delaware, and on multiple other boards and task forces.      

Professionally, Beverley taught at Temple University before returning to Delaware for multiple career moves, including as Executive Assistant for Land Use & the Environment with New Castle County Executive Rick Collins, Vice President & a Partner in Blue Ball Properties, LLP, then, for the last 16 years before her retirement, as Executive Director of The Committee of 100 where she worked with leaders at the County, State, and national levels to help keep our economy healthy, important for every aspect of life, including human rights.