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Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton

Democrat from District of Columbia , At Large (see map)
110th Congress (2007–2009)

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Phone: (202) 225-8050
FAX: 225-3002
Email: via web form
Website: http://www.norton.house.gov/

DC Address

The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton
2136 Rayburn House Office Building,
Washington DC 20515

Biographical Information

Eleanor Holmes Norton, Democrat, of Washington, DC; born in Washington, DC, June 13, 1937; education: graduated from Dunbar High School, 1955; B.A., Antioch College, 1960; M.A., Yale Graduate School, 1963; J.D., Yale Law School, 1964; awards: more than 43 honary degrees; 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; Distinguished 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 ..."); organizations: chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1977-81; 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; professional: 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; family: divorced; two children: John and Katherine; committees: Government Reform; Homeland Security; Transportation and Infrastructure; subcommittees: Aviation; Civil Service and Agency Organization; Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources; ranking member, Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management; Emergency Preparedness and Response; Intelligence and Counterterrorism; elected to the 102nd Congress on November 6, 1990; reelected to each succeeding Congress.

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