the Year in 2017 by the advocacy group Public Justice. Steel continues to work at Outten & Golden where he focuses on helping formerly incarcerated people with clean records secure employment; helping pre-trail detainees being held in private prisons to earn a fair wage for their labor; and helping “gig” workers secure employee benefits. The Butler's Child In 2016, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press published “The Butler’s Child,” Steel’s autobiography (written with Beau Friedlander) about his experiences growing up in the Warner Brothers family, and his experiences as a civil rights attorney. The University of South Carolina Press republished the book with an new subtitle, “The Butler’s Child: White Privilege, Race, and a Lawyer's Life in Civil Rights,” and an epilogue by Steel in 2020. Harvard University historian and filmmaker Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote that, “The breadth of Steel’s legal activism over the last half century, as revealed in this remarkable memoir, reminds us of the challenges that loomed in the wake of the Civil Rights gains of the 1960s: the campaign to end northern school segregation; ongoing battles against unemployment, under-employment, and housing discrimination: the pervasive problems of police brutality and a deeply flawed criminal justice system. His compelling, first-hand account of the Attica prison uprising and ensuing massacre sheds fresh light on one of the great tragedies of the “Post Civil Rights” era. A child of privilege, Steel has lived a life dedicated to the pursuit of racial justice, and has written a memoir that is timely, essential and deeply inspiring". Personal life Steel married Kitty Muldoon Steel, Ph. D. in 1961. They have three children, Janine, Brian, and Patrick, who was a former CEO of Politico. Steel’s brother, John Howard Steel, is a lawyer and former mayor of Telluride, Co. who wrote the book “Caged Lion: Joseph Pilates and His Legacy”. References 1937 births Living people Harvard College alumni New York Law School alumni