Eleanor Holmes Norton

ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, Democrat Delegate, of Washington, DC; born in Washington, DC, June 13, 1937; education: B.A., Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, 1960; M.A., Yale Graduate School, New Haven, CT, 1963; J.D., Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, 1964; professional history: professor of law, Georgetown University, 1982-90; chair, New York Commission on Human Rights, 1970-76; chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1977-81; board, Community Foundation of Greater Washington; Yale Corporation, 1982- 88; trustee, Rockefeller Foundation, 1982-90; executive assistant, 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, Pennsylvania, and in the U.S. Supreme Court; Council on Foreign Relations; Overseas Development Council; election history: elected to the 102nd Congress on November 6, 1990; reelected to each succeeding Congress.