[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 48 (Monday, March 20, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E346]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 IN RECOGNITION OF DR. DOROTHY ENOMOTO

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                          HON. DORIS O. MATSUI

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 20, 2017

  Ms. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, it is with profound sadness that I rise to 
honor the life of my good friend, Dorothy Stevens Enomoto, who passed 
away on February 14th of this year. I ask my colleagues to join me in 
tribute to Dorothy's truly remarkable life which she dedicated to civil 
rights advocacy and public service.
  Dorothy Stevens Enomoto was the widow of the late Jerry Enomoto, the 
first Asian-Pacific American United States Marshal. Dorothy met Jerry 
during her time in the Department of Corrections, where she became the 
first African-American woman to manage a department and to hold the 
position of Deputy Director of the Department of Women's Civil Addict 
Unit at the California Rehabilitation Center.
  Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Dorothy was the granddaughter of a former 
slave. Dorothy was a classmate and close friend to Martin Luther King, 
Jr., sharing valedictorian honors with him at Booker T. Washington 
Senior High School in Atlanta, Georgia. Eighteen years ago, Dorothy 
cofounded the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Celebration with 
her late husband, Jerry, and my late husband, Bob.
  After her retirement, Dorothy continued to pursue the fight for 
equality by serving on the Sacramento Affirmative Action Committee, the 
Executive Committee of the Sacramento chapter of the NAACP, and 
numerous other organizations which benefitted from her knowledge and 
experience. She and Jerry also served on the U.S. Attorney General's 
Greater Sacramento Area Hate Crimes Task Force.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring the life of 
Dorothy Stevens Enomoto. Her daughters, Yvonne Roby and Marcia Roby 
Jackson, are living testaments to the positive impact she and Jerry 
made on our community and world.

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