Jennie Bradley Lichter / March for Life (Left), March for Life procession / Alison Girone (Right)
CV NEWS FEED // The March for Life Education and Defense Fund has appointed Jennie Bradley Lichter, who is a mother, distinguished legal expert, and pro-life advocate, as its new president-elect of the organization behind “the world’s largest annual human rights demonstration.”
Lichter will officially assume the presidency on February 1, 2025, succeeding Jeanne Mancini, who will remain on the Board of Directors, according to a September 12 news release from the March for Life.
“The organization, which now bills its march as the world’s largest annual human rights demonstration, celebrated its 51st anniversary with this year’s gathering, which took place in late January and attracted tens of thousands,” a report from the March for Life stated. The March has grown significantly from 20,000 participants in 1974 to over 200,000 in recent years.
Lichter, a mother of three, is currently serving as Deputy General Counsel at the Catholic University of America (CUA). The news release states that Lichter has “a broad range of legal and policy experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including at the highest levels of the federal government.”
Lichter, a Notre Dame, Harvard, and Cambridge graduate, also founded and directs “The Guadalupe Project” at CUA, an initiative which provides resources and support for pregnant members of the university, including both students and staff.
Lichter expressed her enthusiasm for her new role in a statement for the press release.
“The March for Life is a storied organization that for 50 years has given the pro-life movement and our nation the great gift of a massive, peaceful, joy-filled annual witness to the dignity of unborn human life,” she said. She noted that she first participated in the March for Life when she was in college.
She added, “I can’t wait to get to work alongside the terrific team at the March for Life, and committed pro-life Americans across the country, to do our part in building a nation where the unborn are protected, mothers are supported, and abortion is unthinkable.”
Mancini expressed her gratitude for her time as president, which was a position she served in for 12 years.
“Leading the March for Life has been the honor and opportunity of a lifetime; one for which I will be forever grateful,” she said, later adding: “I am more than delighted to watch how the organization will continue to grow under Jennie Bradley Lichter’s leadership.”
