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Yale Law School has awarded her the Citation of Merit for outstanding alumni, and Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has awarded her the Wilbur Cross Medal for outstanding alumni, the highest awards conferred by each on alumni. After receiving her bachelor's degree from Antioch College in Ohio, she simultaneously earned her law degree and a master's degree in American Studies from Yale University.

#Eleanor holmes norton full

The Congresswoman, who taught law full time before being elected, is a tenured professor of law at Georgetown University, teaching an upper-class seminar there every year. Department of Transportation, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, along with an additional Metro station at New York Avenue, which has resulted in the development of the NOMA neighborhood.Ĭongresswoman Norton helped end the city's most serious financial crisis in a century, in the 1990's,by achieving a historic package that for the first time restructured the financial relationship between Congress and the District, by transferring $5 billion in unfunded pension liabilities and billions more in state costs to the federal government. Department of Homeland Security headquarters compound, now under construction, and is the largest federal construction project in the country her bill that is developing the 55 acre-Southeast Federal Center, the first private development on federal land her work that resulted in the relocation of 6,000 jobs to the Washington Navy Yard and her successful efforts to bring to the District the new headquarters for the U.S. The most significant are her work in bringing to D.C. residents, which has maintained businesses and residents in the District.Ĭongresswoman Norton also has brought significant economic development to the District of Columbia throughout her service in Congress, creating and preserving jobs in D.C. business tax incentives, including a significant wage credit for employing D.C.

homebuyer tax credit, which has sharply increased home ownership in the District and was a major factor in stabilizing the city's population and D.C. college or university and up to $2,500 per year to many private colleges and universities a unique $5,000 D.C. high school graduates to attend any public U.S. Attorney, and other significant federal law enforcement positions for the District up to $10,000 per year for all D.C. Among them are senatorial courtesy to recommend federal judges, the U.S. The Congresswoman's work for full congressional voting representation and for full democracy for the people of the District of Columbia continues her lifelong struggle for universal human and civil rights.Ĭongresswoman Norton's accomplishments in breaking barriers for her disempowered district are matched by her success in bringing home unique economic benefits to her constituents. Congresswoman Norton has been named one of the 100 most important American women in one survey and one of the most powerful women in Washington in another. She came to Congress as a national figure who had been a civil rights and feminist leader, tenured professor of law, and board member at three Fortune 500 companies.

She serves on two committees: the Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.īefore her congressional service, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to serve as the first woman to chair the U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, serving as congresswoman for the District of Columbia since 1991, is the Chair of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.