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Eleanor Holmes Norton

, lawyer, educator, and civil rights activist was born in Washington, DC on June 13, 1937. After graduating from Dunbar Senior High School, she received a BA from Antioch College. Norton then went on to attend Yale�s Graduate School and School of Law to receive a MA and a LLB simultaneously in 1964.
From 1965 to 1970, she served as Assistant Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). As Assistant Legal Director to the American Civil Liberties Union she defended both Julian Bond�s and George Wallace�s freedom of speech rights. Norton went on to champion women�s rights as the chairmen of the New York Human Right�s Commission. Before joining the Georgetown University ...

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Efficiency in Dispute Systems� in 1990, �Bargaining and the Ethic Process� 1989, and �Equal Employment Law: Crisis in Intervention, Survival Against the Odds� in 1988.
Some of her numerous leadership positions include service as chair of the ACLU National Advisory Council, the Workplace Health Fund, and the Women�s Law and Policy Fellowship. In addition she serves on the Boards of Martin Luther King Jr., Center for Social Change, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Community Foundation of Greater Washington, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
In November 1990, she was elected as the District of Columbia delegate to the United States House of Representatives. Congresswoman is currently serving her fourth term in the House of Representatives. She is divorced and the mother of two children, John Holmes Norton and Katherine Felicia ...

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Added: 8/15/2005 06:33:25 AM
Category: Biographies
Type: Premium Paper
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