Mary Bonauto has been the Project Director for Civil Rights at GLAD since 1990. During that period, she has been co-counsel in the Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut marriage equality litigations and was the prevailing counsel in Goodridge, the first state supreme court decision to require marriage equality (2003-2004). She was also co-counsel in federal court litigation successfully challenging the Defense of Marriage Act. In 2014, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.