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Eleanor Holmes Norton ’60 Named 2004 Chatterjee Peace Lecturer
Antioch is excited to announce that Eleanor Holmes Norton ’60—an impassioned civil rights activist and hard-driving legislator—will be the 2004 Chatterjee Peace Lecturer. Eleanor is the subject of Fire in My Soul, a biography written by Joan Steinau Lester ’62—an award-winning commentator, syndicated op/ed columnist and well-published author. Norton will speak on February 18, 2004 and will be joined by Lester for a book signing and reception.
Congresswoman Norton is now in her seventh term as the Congresswoman for the District of Columbia. Named by President Jimmy Carter as the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she came to Congress as a national figure who had been a civil rights and feminist leader, tenured professor of law, and board member of three Fortune 500 companies. Ms. Norton also had been named one of the 100 most important American women in one survey and one of the most powerful women in Washington in another.
The Congresswoman’s work for full congressional voting representation and for full democracy for the people of the District of Columbia continues her lifelong struggle for universal human rights. She has used her background in national affairs and in law to become a leader in the House in important posts. She has served in the Democratic House leadership group and as the Democratic chair of the Women’s Caucus, and she has been a member of the Committee on the Reorganization of the Congress, appointed by the Speaker when the Democrats controlled the House. Her success in writing bills and getting them enacted has made her one of the most effective legislative leaders in the House.
Norton, who taught full time before being elected, continues as a tenured professor of law at Georgetown University, teaching a course there every year. After receiving her bachelor’s degree from Antioch, Norton simultaneously earned her law degree as well as a masters degree in American Studies from Yale. Yale Law School has awarded her the Citation of Merit as an Outstanding Alumna of Yale Law School, and Yale Graduate School has awarded her the Yale Wilbur Cross Medal as an Outstanding Alumna of the Graduate School. She is the recipient of more than 50 honorary degrees.
She has served on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Board of Governors of the D.C. Bar Association, as well as the boards of civil rights, and other national organizations. She was recently honored at the Women's National Democratic Club in Washington, DC as “Democratic Woman of the Year.”