(AURN News) — Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton announced she will retire at the end of her current term, closing a 35-year chapter as the District of Columbia’s nonvoting delegate in Congress.
She said she fought with fire in her soul and the facts on her side to challenge what she called the injustice of denying more than 700,000 taxpaying D.C. residents the same rights as states.
Eighteen elections later, she said it is time to elevate the next generation of leadership while promising she will keep fighting for D.C. until her final day in office.
From helping plan the 1963 March on Washington to winning cases before the Supreme Court and becoming the first woman to lead the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Norton brought civil rights muscle to Capitol Hill.
For D.C., that translated into tangible wins, including the redevelopment of the Wharf, Capitol Riverfront, NoMa, Walter Reed, St. Elizabeths West for the Department of Homeland Security, and, most recently, the transfer of the RFK Stadium site to the city.
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