The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is advertising a president and CEO job opening one day after the left-wing nonprofit was indicted by a Montgomery grand jury.
The SPLC began advertising the president and CEO position on Wednesday with a “salary range of $450,000 to $525,000 with a comprehensive benefits package.”
“This leader will embody SPLC’s unwavering commitment to racial and social justice, guiding the organization with clarity, integrity, and depth of experience. In doing so, the CEO will cultivate the conditions that allow SPLC’s programs, partnerships, and people to thrive—positioning the organization for sustained impact in the years ahead,” the job description states.
Margaret Huang resigned in July 2025 as president and CEO of the SPLC to “prioritize family life.” Former SPLC Board chair Bryan Fair is currently serving as interim president and CEO. The SPLC’s staff union called on Huang to resign in 2024 after the SPLC laid off 60 employees.
A Montgomery grand jury returned an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and money laundering on Tuesday.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division filed two forfeiture actions to recover alleged proceeds of the organization’s fraud scheme.
According to the indictment, starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of individuals who were either associated with violent and extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, or who had infiltrated violent extremist groups at the SPLC’s direction. Unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website, according to the DOJ.
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