TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas has named a Google manager and former U.S. State Department employee as its new executive director.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Nadine Farid Johnson takes over Monday. The ACLU of Kansas has fought legal battles with the state over voting rights issues, the ability of transgender residents to alter their birth certificates and rules restricting protests at the Statehouse.

Former Executive Director Micah Kubic resigned last year to lead the ACLU of Florida.

Johnson has been a manager at Google for two years, overseeing diversity and inclusion initiatives on the company’s Los Angeles campus. She worked for the U.S. State Department from 2011 to 2017 and developed policy on the Middle East and North Africa.

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