Background
Lightner, Candy was born on May 30, 1946 in Pasadena, California, United States. Daughter of Dykes Charles and Kathryn Josephine Doddridge.
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Lightner, Candy was born on May 30, 1946 in Pasadena, California, United States. Daughter of Dykes Charles and Kathryn Josephine Doddridge.
Doctor (honorary), St. Francis College, Pennsylvania, 1984. Doctor (honorary), Kutztown University, Pennsylvania, 1987. Doctor (honorary), Marymount University, New York City, 1987.
On May 3, 1980, Lightner’s 13-year-old daughter, Cari, was killed by a hit-and-run drunk driver at Sunset and New York Avenues in Fair Oaks, California. The sentence given to the repeat offender of driving while intoxicated (Driving While Impaired) outraged Lightner who then organized Mothers Against Drunk Drivers. The name was later changed to Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
The object of her organization was to raise public awareness of the serious nature of drunk driving and to promote tough legislation against the crime.
Lightner appeared on major television shows, spoke before the United States Congress, addressed professional and business groups, and worked for many years to change public attitudes, modify judicial behavior, and promote tough new legislation. She left Mothers Against Drunk Driving in 1985.
lieutenant was reported in 2002 that she had stated that Mothers Against Drunk Driving had "..become far more neo-prohibitionist than I had ever wanted or envisioned. I started Mothers Against Drunk Driving to deal with the issue of drunk driving".
In 2010, she was quoted saying of Mothers Against Drunk Driving: "I think they"re moving in the right direction", and supporting ignition interlock devices for drunk driving convicts.
Candy Lightner is a recipient of the President"s Volunteer Action Award, an honorary doctorate in humanities and public service, and was the subject of a made-for-television movie, "Mothers Against Drunk Drivers: the Candy Lightner story." She is the co-author (with Nancy Hathaway) of Giving Sorrow Words. Foreign her work, Lightner was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the National Commission on Drunk Driving. Candy Lightner became the President of We Save Lives, which campaigns against drunk, distracted and drugged driving.
Lightner, who is half Lebanese, also served as president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee from October 1994 to March 1995.
Founder, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), 1980, chairman, president, Chief Executive Officer, 1980-1985. Member advisory board Mothers Against Sexual Abuse. Board directors Air Crash Support Network.
Active Sacramento County Task Force on Drunk Driving, Presidential Commission on Drunk and Drugged Driving. Board directors National Commission on Drunk Driving, 1984-1986, National Partnership for Drug Free Use, National Highway Safety Advisory Committee, Love is Feeding Everyone, 1988-1989, others. Judge Gleitsman Foundation.
Board advisors Bhopal Justice Campaign. Member National Society Fund Raising Executives, Women in Arts, National Board Realtors.
Children: Serena, Travis.