Honoree Profile: Judith Lonnquist

Judith Lonnquist, a plaintiff's employment and labor attorney since 1966, served as legal counsel and employment-committee chair of Chicago NOW(1968-69),as amember of NOW's national board from 1969 to 1974,and from 1971 to 1974 as national NOW legal vice president and board member of LDEF.

As NOW legal VP, she established and maintained a national registry of lawyers willing to volunteer on NOW-generated causes. For the first time NOW had a nationally coordinated legal program to assist women at the local level to pursue discrimination lawsuits. Lonnquist developed an amicus program for NOW to file briefs on legal cases of significance to women. She also brought litigation on NOW's behalf challenging inadequate EEOC class settlements, such as the steel industry settlement. In addition, she lobbied on NOW's behalf for the Fair Credit Act, amendments to the Equal Pay Act and Title VII and Title IX.

From 1974 to 1978 Lonnquist was co-president of Seattle NOW, in 1977 serving as chair of the WA state delegation to the Houston conference and co-chair of the national Pro Plan caucus.In 1978, she became cofounder of the Northwest Women's Law Center.

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