THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Judith Lichtman
“I know from experience – if we can imagine it, we can make it happen.”
Attorney, Policy Maker and Changer, National Partnership for Women & Families. Founder of Emily’s List.
Interviewed by Mary Jean Collins, VFA Historian, July 2019
Photo 1. Judy with President Bill Clinton at the signing of the FMLA, 1993. Photo 2. Judy honors then-First Lady Hillary Clinton at the Women’s Legal Defense Fund’s annual luncheon, June 1994.
More About Judy:
- National Partnership for Women & Families
- U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions – Judith Lichtman’s Testimony
- ABA Women Trailblazers Project
- Legends in the Law interviews Judith Lichtman
- University of Virginia – Miller Center Presidential Oral Histories – Edward Kennedy Histories – Judith Lichtman Oral History, 2007
- Judy speaks after President Clinton Signs the Family Medical & Leave Act February 1993
- On C-SPAN
- Selected Awards and Honors
- EMILY’s List
- Wikipedia
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book – Feminists Who Changed America – page 280