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Judith L. Lichtman is an American attorney specializing in women’s rights and an advocate for human and civil rights. Lichtman currently serves as the senior advisor of the National Partnership for Women & Families. She is largely credited with the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. ==Career== Judith Lichtman graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1965〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nationalpartnership.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=19695&security=2141&news_iv_ctrl=2061 )〕 as one of two women in a class of 150.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/women/bios/lichtman.authcheckdam.pdf )〕 Lichtman began her legal career as a civil rights attorney working on school desegregation in the southern United States for the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.lawyers.vetfems.org/profile-lichtman.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-04-07/features/9604070283_1_fmla-ill-family-members-leave )〕 In 1968, she joined the faculty at Jackson State College, a historically black college in Mississippi. She later returned to the District of Columbia to work at the Urban Coalition on school desegregation. For two years, Lichtman worked at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, conducting hearings in the South on the treatment of black students and black teachers after desegregation. Lichtman also worked with the commission to investigate low-income women's issues and the link between race and gender. In 1972, Lichtman left the commission to work on George McGovern’s presidential campaign.〔 Lichtman later served as a legal advisor to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.〔 In 1974, Lichtman began work with the Women’s Legal Defense Fund (WLDF), now known as the National Partnership for Women & Families, as the executive director and first paid staff person.〔 Lichtman served as president of the National Partnership from 1988〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.callawyer.com/clstory.cfm?pubdt=199512&eid=23408&evid=1 )〕 to 2004. She has since served as the organization’s senior advisor〔 and also serves on its board.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nationalpartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_board )〕 During her time as the executive director, president and senior advisor of the National Partnership, Lichtman and her organization have been credited with helping to pass several pieces of legislation, including: the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and, mostly notably, the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, which is referred to as the “Judy Lichtman Act” by insiders on Capitol Hill.〔〔 Lichtman helped establish what is now Georgetown University’s Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program, which provides one-year fellowships for recent law graduates, and the Women’s Appointments Project, a bipartisan coalition that advocates for the appointment of women to senior executive branch positions.〔 Lichtman is a founder of EMILY's List.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7nsjm-8dzM )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Judith L. Lichtman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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