| LC control no. | n 77009082 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Norton, Eleanor Holmes |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Yellow Springs (Ohio) New Haven (Conn.) |
| Located | Washington (D.C.) Philadelphia (Pa.) New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1937-06-13 |
| Place of birth | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission New York (N.Y.). City Commission on Human Rights Yale Law School Antioch College Georgetown University. Law Center United States. Congress. House |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers Civil rights workers Legislators Attorneys |
| Found in | U.S. Cong. Senate. Com. on Human Resources. Nomination, c1977 (subj.) t.p. (Eleanor Holmes Norton) p. 3 (been for 7 yrs. Chair, New York City Commiss. on Human Rights; in 1974 under 45) Lester, J.S. Fire in my soul, c2003: t.p. (Eleanor Holmes Norton) p. 29 (b. June 13, 1937) African American National Biography, accessed March 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Norton, Eleanor Holmes; Eleanor Katherine Holmes; women's and civil rights activist, congresswoman, U.S. representative, attorney, educator; born 13 June 1937 in Washington, DC; studied at Antioch College, Ohio (1955-1960) and graduated from Yale Law School in 1964; was a clerk to U.S. District Court judge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; became head of New York City's Human Rights Commission (1970-1977); coauthored the book Sex discrimination and the law: causes and remedies (1975); became the first woman to chair Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) (1977); was a professor at Georgetown University Law Center (1981), cofounded Women's Law, Policy Fellowship Program; elected to 102nd Congress, as district's nonvoting representative (1990), was elected at Yale University Corporation (1982); served on boards of several Fortune 500 corporations, Pitney Bowes, Metropolitan Life Insurance, etc., served 11 terms as Congresswoman for District of Columbia by 2011, beginning January 3, 1991) |
| Associated language | eng |
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