[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 69 (Thursday, May 16, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S5205]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              JANET COOPER

Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I rise to honor Janet Cooper who will be 
retiring from the State of Michigan Department of Civil Rights on June 
1, 1996. Janet Cooper has given more than three decades of dedicated 
service in establishing one of the best civil rights agencies in the 
Nation.
  Janet Cooper joined the Michigan Department of Civil Rights as a 
field investigator in 1963, about the same time I became the general 
counsel. I knew her as a dedicated and thorough public servant. Since 
then, she has served the department in many roles including director of 
the Conciliation and Hearings Division, deputy director of the 
Enforcement Bureau, and director of the Legal Bureau. She is currently 
the department deputy and is responsible for the Enforcement Bureau, 
the Office of Contractual and Business Services, and the Office of 
Research.
  Janet Cooper is an experienced attorney who is known across the 
country as an expert in the field of civil rights. She has served as an 
adjunct professor at Wayne State University School of Law and the 
Detroit College of Law. The Michigan State Bar Foundation honored Janet 
with the title of Fellow. This title is given to attorneys who have 
demonstrated outstanding legal ability and a strong dedication to the 
community.
  Janet Cooper is retiring from the Department of Civil Rights, but her 
work protecting the constitutional rights of all citizens will not end. 
She will now become the chair of the Metropolitan Detroit Branch of the 
American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan.
  I know that my Senate colleagues will join me in honoring Janet 
Cooper for her many years of dedicated service in upholding the civil 
rights of all people.

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