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词条 Nancy Northup
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  1. Personal

  2. Background

  3. References

  4. External links

Nancy Northup (born 1960) is an American political activist. She is the President of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a pro-choice organization, in New York City.[1][2]

Under her leadership, the Center helped win Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, a Supreme Court case considered the most significant case won by the pro-choice movement since Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992.[3]

Personal

Northup was born in Kokomo, Indiana in 1960 and grew up in New Texas, California and New York. She graduated from Allendale Columbia School in Rochester, New York.[4] She then graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1981 and from Columbia Law School, where she was a Kent Scholar and Managing Editor of the Columbia Law Review. She lives in New York City. Northup is married to Jim Johnson, a former candidate for New Jersey governor.[5][6]

Background

Northup was the founding director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. From 1989 to 1996, she served as a prosecutor and Deputy Chief of Appeals in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

She served as a law clerk to Alvin B. Rubin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. Northup holds adjunct appointments at NYU Law School and Columbia Law School where she has taught courses in constitutional and human rights law.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://reproductiverights.org/ |title=Center for Reproductive Rights |publisher=Reproductiverights.org |date=2010-06-04 |accessdate=2010-06-11}}
2. ^https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/world/asia/02iht-phils.html
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/a-new-supreme-court-challenge-the-erosion-of-abortion-access-in-texas/415929/|title=Will the Supreme Court Defend Texas's Law That Limits Access to Abortion?|last=Ford|first=Emma Green and Matt|language=en-US|access-date=2016-06-28}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-northup-3a04b39|title=Nancy Northup - LinkedIn|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=Nancy Northup, James Johnson|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/fashion/weddings/nancy-northup-james-johnson.html?_r=0|website=The New York Times|date=31 August 2014}}
6. ^http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/06/election_results_nj_governor_primary_2017.html

External links

  • Center for Reproductive Rights
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