Kim Gandy
Kim Gandy (born January 25, 1954 in Bossier City , Louisiana ) is an American feminist who was president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 2001 to 2009 . Since 2012 she has been the President and CEO of the National Network to End Domestic Violence .
Life
Gandy is the daughter of Alfred Kenneth Gandy (1928-2010) and Roma R. Gandy (1927-1998). Her father was an employee of the former Bossier Bank and Trust Company , founded by her grandfather WA Gandy during the 1920s. After the death of her mother, her father married Shirley S. Lacobee (1925-2004). Kim Gandy's younger sister, Kellie Ann, died, like her mother, of cancer.
Kim Gandy graduated from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics . When she started working for American Telephone and Telegraph , she found that the company needed her husband's consent to pay her benefits. She joined the National Organization for Women (NOW) in Louisiana in 1973 and in the following years she devoted herself to a campaign to overthrow the so-called Head and Master Law , which gave husbands sole power of disposal over property jointly earned in marriage. Inspired by her experience at NOW, she studied at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law , where she was a member of the Law Review and the National Moot Court Team . In 1978 she graduated.
Then Gandy served as a "Senior Assistant District Attorney " in New Orleans and later opened her own "Trial Practice" (legal revision course intended for advanced law students to learn how to bring a criminal case to court in front of the jury), where she presented herself specialized in cases involving the fair treatment of women in the process.
She held various positions within the National Organization for Women , including President for Louisiana NOW from 1979 to 1981, National Secretary from 1987 to 1991, and Vice President of NOW from 1991 to 2001. From 2001 to 2009 she was President of NOW since she was re-elected for a second term in 2005.
In the pre-election campaign for the nomination for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 defended Gandy the candidate Hillary Clinton to a review of the television presenter in news channel MSNBC , Chris Matthews , even Democrat whose attitude to Obama's rival Hillary Clinton him the accusation of sexism earned when he remarked that Senator Clinton received so much benevolent support not because of her election manifesto, but only because of the fact that her husband, former President Bill Clinton , "made out". Gandy said Matthews was "a repeat offender when it comes to sexist attitudes towards women in politics". Matthews publicly apologized for his remarks.
In 2009, Gandy was a Resident Fellow at the Department of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University . From January 2010 to October 2012, she was Vice President and General Counsel of the Feminist Majority Foundation in Arlington County , Virginia .
Gandy is married to Christopher "Kip" Lornell, an American ethnomusicologist and music professor at the George Washington University in Washington, DC They have two daughters.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Washington Post: Chris Matthews Backs Off 'Nasty' Remark on Clinton , January 18, 2008
Web links
- National Network to End Domestic Violence: Kim A. Gandy
- NOW Officers: Kim Gandy - President
- 2005 National NOW Elections - Candidate Information
- Institute of Politics , Kennedy School of Government
- Feminist Majority Foundation
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gandy, Kim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gandy Lornell, Kim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American feminist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bossier City , Louisiana, USA |