Cory Isaacson (she/her) has served as the legal director of the ACLU of Georgia since 2022. In that role, she leads and manages the ACLU of Georgia’s litigation docket and legal team.
Before joining the ACLU of Georgia, Cory’s work focused on indigent defense and the criminal legal system. She spent four years as an attorney at the Georgia Resource Center, where she represented people on Georgia's death row in state and federal habeas proceedings. Prior to that, Cory was an attorney at Georgia Justice Project, where she represented people facing barriers to employment and housing because of their criminal history and advocated for reforms to Georgia’s expungement laws in the state legislature. She began her legal career as an attorney and clinical supervisor in the Youth Defender Clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center, part of the clinical program at UC Berkeley School of Law. In that position, she represented young people in juvenile court and in school discipline proceedings and trained and supervised law students working on those cases.
Cory is a graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law and New York University. She was born in Atlanta and raised in Savannah, and returned with her family to Georgia in 2016.