Leila Green Little is a rural mom and intellectual freedom advocate. She has been fighting against censorship in her local public library system since 2021. In 2022, she and six others sued their county (Leila Green Little, et. al, v. Llano County, et. al) for banning books. This case resulted in a federal court issuing a preliminary injunction requiring Llano County to return the censored books to the catalog and shelves of the public library. An en banc panel in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned this ruling, and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States in September 2025. Leila was galvanized to learn more about librarianship, and earned her Master of Library Science degree from the University of North Texas in 2024. Previously, Ms. Little earned her master’s degree from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and had a previous career as a speech-language pathologist specializing in working with patients with head and neck cancer. She likes to read banned books, and lives on a cattle ranch with her husband of 20 years and their two kids.
