Eleanor Holmes NortonEleanor Holmes Norton is a name of Delegate to Congress who is now representing the District of Columbia. She was born on June 13, 1937 in Washington, D. C. to Vela Holmes and Coleman Holmes. She graduated from the Yale University in 1960, got masters’ degree in 1963 and L. L B. in 1964 from Yale Law School.
While in college, she participated in number of civil rights movements and also worked for the Student Nonviolent Co-coordinating Committee. While in law school she moved to Mississippi for the Mississippi Freedom Summer and worked for the civil rights stalwarts. After graduating from law school she joined to Federal District Court Judge A. Leon Higginbotham as a clerk. Later she served as an assistant legal director of an American Civil Liberties Union. In 1970's she appointed as the head of the New York City Human Rights Commission by Mayor John Lindsay. President Jimmy Carter appointed her as the first female Chair of the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In 1990, she elected as a Democratic delegate defeating Betty Ann Kane, a city council member. She has canceled the D. C gun laws, cancelled the ban on handguns, the ban on semiautomatic weapons, all registration requirements and criminal penalties. On June 27, 2008 she appeared on the Democracy Now to discuss ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller of Supreme Court.
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