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Born June 13, 1937, in Washington, DC
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton was the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; she served during the Carter administration from 1977 to 1981. A constitutional and civil rights lawyer, she worked with the American Civil Liberties Union before being appointed to head of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in 1970. She is a graduate of Antioch College and Yale University, and became a tenured professor at the Georgetown Law Center in 1982. Norton has served continuously as the delegate to the House of Representatives for the District of Columbia since 1991.