Scott Schoettes, Senior Staff Attorney & HIV Project Director, of Lambda Legal will present on the topic of HIV criminalization. Mr. Schoettes is also an advisor to the President of the United States on matters of HIV Criminalization. Schoettes, who lives openly with HIV, has successfully litigated cases involving the discriminatory denial of medical care to an incarcerated woman living with HIV in Wisconsin (Rose v. Cahee), the eviction of a 75-year-old man from an assisted living facility in Arkansas (Franke v. Parkstone Living Center), and assisted in representing Lorenzo Taylor in his successful effort to lift the State Department’s blanket ban on hiring people with HIV for the Foreign Service (Taylor v. Rice). 

Schoettes graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and clerked for the Hon. J. Frederick Motz in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.  Before joining Lambda Legal as the HIV Project Staff Attorney in 2007, Schoettes spent four years at Latham & Watkins