Housing Rights Center
Rodney Leggett is a legal professional with extensive experience in litigation and legal support roles. Currently serving as Director of Litigation and Supervising Attorney at the Housing Rights Center since November 2020, Rodney has also held the position of Staff Attorney within the same organization. Prior to this, Rodney worked as a Judicial Law Clerk at U.S. District Courts from November 2019 to October 2020 and was a Research Assistant to Dean L. Song Richardson at the University of California, Irvine School of Law from September 2018 to May 2019. Additional experience includes summer associate work at Relman Colfax PLLC and legal internships with the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties and the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program. Earlier career roles include serving as a Fair Housing/Housing Placement Specialist with AmeriCorps and various technical positions at Summit Consulting, LLC, and Lockheed Martin. Rodney Leggett earned a Doctor of Law (JD) from the University of California, Irvine School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Government from Howard University.
Housing Rights Center
The Housing Rights Center (HRC) is the nation’s largest nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting housing discrimination. Since 1968, HRC has identified and addressed the challenges of housing discrimination, and continues to expand and diversify its services and programs to meet the need and ever changing issue of fair housing. HRC provides residents within the Los Angeles and Ventura Counties with free (1) housing discrimination investigation, (2) fair housing enforcement (3) outreach and public education, and (4) landlord-tenant counseling. HRC is able to assist clients in several different languages including English, Spanish, Mandarin, Armenian, Russian, Cantonese, and American Sign Language (ASL). Individuals with hearing/speech impairments can be assisted through our TTY system. Our mission is to actively support and promote fair housing through education, advocacy and litigation, to the end that all persons have the opportunity to secure the housing they desire and can afford, without discrimination based on their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, familial status, marital status, disability, genetic information, ancestry, age, source of income or other characteristics protected by law. **This material is based on work supported by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of HUD.**