| LC control no. | no2019014105 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Heumann, Judith E. |
| Variant(s) | Heumann, Judy, 1947-2023 |
| Birth date | 1947-12-18 |
| Death date | 2 023-03-04 |
| Field of activity | Students with disabilities--Discipline Disabilities People with disabilities Political science |
| Affiliation | University of California, Berkeley Center for Independent Living United States. Department of Education United States. Department of State |
| Profession or occupation | Human rights workers Teachers Public officers |
| Found in | Questions and answers on disciplining students with disabilities, 1995: microfiche heading (Judith E. Heumann) Washington post WWW site, viewed March 9, 2023 (in obituary dated March 6, 2023: Judy Heumann, who spent decades advocating for the inherent dignity of people with disabilities, campaigning for federal civil rights legislation while organizing sit-ins, marches and other nonviolent demonstrations, and who later wielded influence as an official at the institutions she had worked so hard to change, died March 4 in Washington. She was 75. Judith Ellen Heumann was born in Philadelphia on Dec. 18, 1947. She moved to the West Coast to help run the Center for Independent Living, a disability rights group launched by Ed Roberts, and in 1975 she received a master's degree in public health from the University of California at Berkeley. Ms. Heumann moved to Washington in 1993 to work for the Education Department, as assistant secretary of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. President Barack Obama later appointed her the State Department's first special adviser for international disability rights) |
| Associated language | eng |
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