Congressional Directory for the 105th Congress (1997-1998), June 1997.
[Pages 326-327]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



    ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, Democrat, of Washington, DC; born in 
Washington, DC, June 13, 1937; graduated from Dunbar High School, 1955; 
B.A., Antioch College, 1960; M.A., Yale Graduate School, 1963; J.D., 
Yale Law School, 1964; honorary degrees: Tougalvo University, 1992; 
University of Southern Connecticut, 1992; Fisk University, 1991; 
University of Hartford, 1990; Ohio Wesleyan University, 1990; Wake 
Forest University, 1990; Colgate University, 1989; Drury College, 1989; 
Florida International University, 1989; St. Lawrence University, 1989; 
University of Wisconsin, 1989; Rutgers University, 1988; St. Joseph's 
College, 1988; University of Lowell, 1988; Sojourner-Douglas College, 
1987; Salem State College, 1987; Haverford College, 1986; Lesley 
College, 1986; New Haven University, 1986; University of San Diego, 
1986; Bowdoin College, 1985; Antioch College, 1985; Tufts University, 
1984; University of Massachusetts, 1983; Smith College, 1983; Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, 1983; Spelman College, 1982; Syracuse 
University, 1981; Yeshiva University, 1981; Lawrence University, 1981; 
Emanuel College, 1981; Wayne State University, 1980; Gallaudet College, 
1980; Denison University, 1980; New York University, 1978; Howard 
University, 1978; Brown University, 1978; Wilberforce University, 1978; 
Georgetown University, 1977; City College of New York, 1975; Marymount 
College, 1974; Princeton University, 1973; Bard College, 1971; Cedar 
Crest College, 1969; chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
1977-81; professor of law, Georgetown University, 1982-90; chair, New 
York Commission on Human Rights, 1970-76; executive assistant to the 
mayor of New York City (concurrent appointment); law clerk, Judge A. 
Leon Higginbotham, Federal District Court, 3rd Circuit; attorney, 
admitted to practice by examination in the District of Columbia and 
Pennsylvania and in the U.S. Supreme Court; One Hundred Most Important 
Women (Ladies Home Journal, 1988); One Hundred Most Powerful Women in 
Washington (The Washingtonian magazine, September 1989); Ralph E. Shikes 
Bicentennial Fellow, Harvard Law School, 1987; Visiting Phi Beta Kappa 
Scholar, 1985; Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy 
School of Government, spring 1984; Distin

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guished Public Service Award, Center for National Policy, 1985; 
Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturer, University of California Law School 
(Boalt Hall) at Berkeley, 1981; Yale Law School Association Citation of 
Merit Medal to the Outstanding Alumnus of the Law School, 1980; Harper 
Fellow, Yale Law School, 1976, (for ``a person . . . who has made a 
distinguished contribution to the public life of the nation . . .''); 
Rockefeller Foundation, trustee, 1982-90; Community Foundation of 
Greater Washington, board; Yale Corporation, 1982-88; Council on Foreign 
Relations; Overseas Development Council; U.S. Committee to Monitor the 
Helsinki accords; Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia; boards of Martin 
Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change and Environmental Law 
Institute; Workplace Health Fund; ranking minority member, Subcommittee 
on the District of Columbia, Government Reform and Oversight Committee; 
member, Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee, Public Buildings 
and Economic Development Subcommittee, Transportation and Infrastructure 
Committee; vice chair, Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues; 
divorced; two children: John and Katherine; elected to the 102nd 
Congress on November 6, 1990; reelected November 2, 1992 and November 8, 
1994.


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