Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton (born June 13, 1937, Washington, D.C., U.S.) is an American lawyer and politician who broke several gender and racial barriers during her career, in which she defended the rights of others to equal opportunity. After attending Antioch College (B.A., 1960) in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Norton received degrees from Yale University in American studies (M.A., 1963) and law (J.D., 1964). In late 1964 she began clerking for a federal judge in Philadelphia before...