Eleanor Holmes Norton Eleanor Holmes Norton, lawyer, educator, and civil rights activist was born in Washington, DC on June 13, 1937. After graduating from Dunbar Senior High School, she received a BA from Antioch College. Norton then went on to attend Yale’s Graduate School and School of Law to receive a MA and a LLB simultaneously in 1964. From 1965 to 1970, she served as Assistant Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). As Assistant Legal Director to the American Civil Liberties Union she defended both Julian Bond’s and George Wallace’s freedom of speech rights. Norton went on to champion women’s rights as the chairmen of the New York Human Right’s Commission. Before joining the Georgetown University Law Center faculty in 1982, she came to Washington, D.C. to chair the Equa....

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