Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton

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Biographical

Gender: Female
Pronunciation: EH-luh-nor holmz NOR-tuhn
Date of Birth: June 13, 1937 (age: 86)
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C.
Religion: Episcopalian
Hometown: Washington, D.C.
Place of Residence: Washington, D.C.
Previous Occupation: Professor

Wikipedia

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Family:

Previous relationship: Edward Norton Divorced, 1965

2 children: John Holmes Norton, Katherine Felicia Norton

Biography:

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton has served as Washington, D.C.'s congressional delegate since 1991.

Before her congressional service, President Jimmy Carter appointed Norton to serve as the first woman to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 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. Rep. 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. 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 unive rsal human and civil rights.

Rep. Norton's accomplishments in breaking barriers for her disempowered district are matched by her success in bringing home unique economic benefits to her constituents. Among them are senatorial courtesy to recommend federal judges, the U.S. attorney, and other significant federal law enforcement positions for the District; up to $10,000 per year for all D.C. high school graduates to attend any public U.S. college or university and up to $2,500 per year to many private colleges and universities; a unique $5,000 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. business tax incentives, including a significant wage credit for employing D.C. residents, which has maintained businesses and residents in the District.

Rep. Norton also has brought significant economic development to the District of Columbia throughout her service in Congress, creating and preserving jobs in D.C. The most significant are her work in bringing to D.C. the U.S. 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. 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.

Rep. 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.

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. 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. 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. She is the recipient of more than 50 honorary degrees.

Before being elected, Rep. Norton served as a trustee on a number of public service boards, including the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Board of Governors of the D.C. Bar Association, as well as served on the boards of civil rights and other national organizations.

The congresswoman is a third-generation Washingtonian, and is the mother of John Holmes Norton and Katherine Felicia Norton. See more >>

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Facebook, campaign

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YouTube, official

Instagram, official

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Official Links:

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Press Releases

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Education

Yale Law School - LLB (1964)
Yale University - MA (1963)
Antioch College - BA (1960)
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.) - Diploma (1955)

Office History

Congressional Offices:

U.S. House of Representatives (Jan. 3, 1991-) In Office

Delegate, At-Large Congressional District of District of Columbia

Election Results

2019 (Nov. 6, 2018 election)

At-Large Congressional District of District of Columbia

Eleanor Holmes Norton (Eleanor Holmes), 88.00%
Democrat

Nelson Rimensnyder, 4.00%
Republican

Natalie Stracuzzi, 4.00%
Green

John Cheeks, 2.00%
Non-designated

Bruce Majors, 2.00%
Libertarian
2017 (Nov. 8, 2016 election)

At-Large Congressional District of District of Columbia

Eleanor Holmes Norton (Eleanor Holmes), 88.13%
Democrat

Martin Moulton, 6.22%
Libertarian

Lino Stracuzzi, 4.76%
D.C. Statehood Green

Associated Organizations

Board membership:

Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument
Advisory Board Member
Yale Law School
Honorary Executive Committee Member of the Yale Law School Association
Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program
Advisory Board Member
Antioch College
Honorary Board of Trustees Member
American University Women and Politics Institute
Advisory Board Member
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Member, Board of Trustees

Election campaign:

Citizens for Eleanor Holmes Norton (Washington, D.C.)

Awards

D.C. Statehood Freedom Award (Veterans for D.C. Statehood) (Nov. 2019)
Founders Award (Women’s Forum of New York) (June 2019)
Supporting homelessness relief efforts and championing the D.C. community (Miriam's Kitchen (Washington, D.C.)) (May 2019)
Freedom to Fly Award (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) (March 2018)
Distinguished Community Health Advocate Award (National Association of Community Health Centers Inc.) (2017)

Publications

A conversation with Commissioner Eleanor Holmes Norton: Held on June 29, 1979 at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C (Studies in government regulation)
The Black Washingtonians: The Anacostia Museum Illustrated Chronology (2005)
Fire in My Soul (2004)
New York University Law Review: “Bargaining and the Ethic of Process" (1989)
Tulane Law Review: "Equal Employment Law: Crisis in Interpretation—Survival Against the Odds" (1988)

Official Signature

Contact Information

Email, member official contact form

Office Addresses:

Main Office:

Address:	2136 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-5100
Phone:	202-225-8050
Fax:	202-225-3002

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Privately Financed Travel

20 trips taken between 2003 - 2018 costing $18,633

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Personal Financial Disclosures

Disclosures as a member:

Annual: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2016 (Amendment), 2015, 2015 (Amendment), 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2008 (Amendment), 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003
Extension Letter: 2021, 2020
Stock transaction: 05/13/2024, 05/13/2024, 04/15/2024, 12/28/2023, 10/24/2023, 07/11/2023, 05/04/2023, 04/12/2021, 07/09/2020, 02/25/2020, 07/08/2019, 09/14/2018, 09/06/2018, 02/24/2017, 09/01/2016, 07/05/2016, 12/04/2015, 09/30/2015, 03/31/2015, 02/05/2015, 01/16/2015, 03/11/2014
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Congressional Staff

Staff Turnover:

Turnover Index: 0.21
(House Average: 0.25)
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Staff Salary Rate:

Office Median Annual Salary: $68,509.92
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Staff Salaries Paid:

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Committees

House Oversight and Accountability Committee

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Economic Growth, Energy Policy and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Subcommittee

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Health Care and Financial Services Subcommittee

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Aviation Subcommittee

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Subcommittee

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Highways and Transit Subcommittee, Ranking Member

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee

Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission

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