New Merritt Fund Trustee - Emily Knox

The LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund elections have taken place and the 2022 trustees are Emily Knox (newly elected), Robert P. Holley, and Steve Norman. Sara Dallas is the outgoing trustee who will remain active for one year in a consulting role. Trustees meet to confidentially review applications and manage the Fund.

The fund was established in 1970 as a special trust in memory of Dr. LeRoy C. Merritt. It is devoted to the support, maintenance, medical care, and welfare of librarians who, in the Trustees’ opinion, are:

• Denied employment rights or discriminated against on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, age, disability, or place of national origin; or
• Denied employment rights because of defense of intellectual freedom; that is, threatened with loss of employment or discharged because of their stand for the cause of intellectual freedom, including promotion of freedom of the press, freedom of speech, the freedom of librarians to select items for their collections from all the world’s written and recorded information, and defense of privacy rights.

Learn more about the fund, how it has assisted librarians in the past, and how you can support the fund, or apply for assistance, by visiting www.merrittfund.org.