Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton ( born June 13, 1937 in Washington DC) is an American politician of the Democratic Party, and since 1991 as an official delegate of the District of Columbia Member of the House of Representatives of the United States. She has in this function namely participation and voting in preparatory committees, as well as the right to speak before the assembled house, but not to vote at the polls ultimately be decided.

After leaving school, Eleanor Holmes attended Antioch College Antioch University in Yellow Springs ( Ohio) and where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1960. The Master of Arts followed in 1963 at Yale University. The following year she was there at the Law Faculty of the exam for the Bachelor of Laws, whereupon she began practicing as a lawyer. In addition, it was 1964-1965 as legal assistant ( Clerk only) by Federal Judge A. Leon Higginbotham active.

During this time she also became active in the civil rights movement. Between 1965 and 1970 she served as deputy director of the legal department at the American Civil Liberties Union. From 1970 to 1971 she was an Assistant Professor at the Law School of New York University. In 1970, they also took over the management of the Human Rights Commission of New York City, which she held until 1977. In New York, she was also from 1971 to 1974 Executive Assistant on the staff of Mayor John Lindsay.

Other activities as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1977-1981), a Fellow of the Urban Institute think tank (1981-1982) and a professor at Georgetown University Law Center (1982-1990) joined in, before the first time for the Congress candidate and on 3 January 1991 Walter E. Fauntroy replaced there after his successful election as a delegate. After repeated Eleanor Holmes Norton is one re-election to Parliament on since then.