THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Mary Anne Sedey
“I Learned All My Best Skills in the Women’s Movement.”
Employment Rights Attorney. Educator. Organizer. First president of NOW’s St. Louis chapter. First Missouri state coordinator. NOW Midwest Regional Director, 1974. Board member of national NOW. Organizer and first chair, MO ERA coalition. Partner in the first women’s law firm in St. Louis (Anderson, Everett, Sedey & Van Amburg). President and founder of the St. Louis chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association 1995-1998. Past president of Workplace Fairness. Served a six-year term on the Judicial Commission of the 22nd Judicial Circuit of Missouri and a member of the executive committee of the Theodore McMillian American Inn of Court. Has taught courses and spoken nationally on trial tactics and employment law issues.
Interviewed by Karen Fishman, September, 2020
Photo 1. Polly Bergen presents Mary Anne Sedey with a check in support of the ERA, 1979. Photo 2. Cover of St. Louis Lawyer, November 2013.
More About Mary Anne:
- Sedey Harper Westhoff. P.C. website
- Mary Anne Sedey inducted into the SLU School of Law Order of the Fleur De Lis Hall of Fame 2017
- Mary Anne Sedey on St. Louis Public Radio
- Veteran Feminists of America events
- “Sharing Our Stories” Duke University, NC March 31, 2017
- Panel : Law and Government
- Feminist activists: Roxanne Conlin, Holly Knox, Mary Anne Sedey
- Historians: Katherine Turk, Leandra Zarnow, Mary Ziegler
- Panel : Law and Government
- Labor and the Women’s Movement, The Untold Story and Why It Matters St. Louis, MO September 27, 2014
- “Empowering Women: A Tale Of Two Generations” Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI, September 15, 2012
- Lois Herr introduces the panel, Bernell Hooker, Anne Ladky, Mary Anne Sedey and Sheila Tobias
- Mary Anne’s speech
- Mary Jean Collins honors Mary Anne Sedey, Midwest Feminists, Chicago, IL 2004
- “Sharing Our Stories” Duke University, NC March 31, 2017
- Mary Anne Sedey on behalf of the Petitioner – Argument before the Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C. November 2, 1987
- Mary Anne Sedey papers
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America, page 415