Please join us in honoring the National LGBTQ+ Bar’s leadership, our committed legal professionals, and the Bar’s ongoing work. Our mission to advance LGBTQ+ inclusion is only possible because of our volunteer leaders and dedicated members, and we hope you will join us as we celebrate our community.

Honoring Frederick Sultan and Rachel Goldberg

Frederick Sultan
President of the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association

Rachel Goldberg
President of the National LGBTQ+ Bar Foundation

 

Monday, March 30, 2026
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Central

Address provided only to registrants
Austin

Online registration is here. Please email Nicole Fox and Paul Thaler at developmentstaff@lgbtqbar.org if there are any questions.

ABOUT 

Frederick Sultan (he/him) has practiced commercial litigation in Austin, Texas for over 25 years. He has previously served as litigation counsel to the Lower Colorado River Authority, and has represented a wide range of businesses and individuals in private practice at Foley & Lardner LLP, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, and Clark, Thomas & Winters PC. He has served as briefing attorney to Justice Mack Kidd on the Third Court of Appeals of Texas sitting in Austin.

Fred is passionate about his community and serves organizations on the local, state, and national level. He serves on the Austin Advisory Counsel for Vivent Health, is former chair of the Board of Directors of AIDS Services of Austin, is former chair of the LGBT Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, and is a co-founder of the Austin Bar Association’s LGBT Law Section. He has been awarded the Austin Bar Foundation’s David H. Walter Community Excellence Award (2019), the State Bar of Texas LGBT Law Section’s Judge Norman W. Black Award (2018), and the Austin LGBT Bar Association’s Award of Excellence (2017). In 2013, he was named as the Outstanding Director by the Austin Bar Association.

He received a Bachelor of Arts from Rice University, a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas School of Law, with honors, and was admitted practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008.

Rachel Goldberg (she/her) maintains a private law practice that is focused on real estate development. She is a James W. Cooper Life Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation and served on the Connecticut Law Tribune’s Editorial Board from 2013 through 2019. Attorney Goldberg worked to secure passage of “An Act Concerning Discrimination” (PA 11-55) which prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity or expression; “An Act Concerning Birth Certificate Amendments” (PA 15-132) which modernized Connecticut’s standard for allowing transgender and intersex people to correct the gender designation on their birth certificates and other state laws, regulations and procedures to protect the rights of Transpeople in Connecticut. Rachel Goldberg has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University and a Juris Doctorate from Quinnipiac University School of Law.