Kim Allison Gandy, American feminist organization executive, lawyer. Bar: Louisiana 1978, United States District Court (eastern and western districts) Louisiana 1980, Supreme Court of the United States Court 1981, United States Court Appeals (5th circuit) 1982.
Background
Gandy was born in Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana, to Alfred Kenneth Gandy (1928–2010), a native of Bossier City, and Roma Rae (Young) Gandy (1927–1998), a native of Pennsylvania. Her father was an officer of the former Bossier Bank and Trust Company, an institution organized during the 1920s by her grandfather, W.A.
Education
GBS, Louisiana Technology University, 1973. Juris Doctor, Loyola University, 1978.
Career
She has been president and Chief Executive Officer of the National Network to End Domestic Violence since 2012. In 2009, Gandy was a resident fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From January 2010 to October 2012 she was vice president and general counsel at the Feminist Majority Foundation in Arlington, Virginia.
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After Roma"s death, A. K. Gandy married the former Shirley South. Lacobee (1925–2004) of Shreveport. Kim Gandy graduated from Louisiana Technical University in Ruston, the seat of Lincoln Parish, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics. Having taken a job with American Telephone and Telegraph, Gandy became outraged that the firm required her husband"s permission for employee benefits.
In 1973, she joined Louisiana National Organization for Women and devoted the next several years to the campaign that overturned the state"s Head and Master law, which gave husbands unilateral control over all property jointly owned by a married couple.
She graduated from Loyola in 1978. Gandy went on to serve as a senior assistant district attorney in New Orleans and later opened a private trial practice, litigating cases seeking fair treatment for women.
She served as president of Louisiana National Organization for Women from 1979 through 1981, national secretary of National Organization for Women from 1987 to 1991, and executive vice president of National Organization for Women from 1991 to 2001. She was elected national National Organization for Women president in 2001 and re-elected to a second term in 2005.
She was term-limited in 2009.. I wasn"t really looking for an apology. I was looking for a behavior change, and for him to treat female politicians the same way as male politicians."
Gandy is married to Christopher "Kip" Lornell, an American ethnomusicologist and professor of music at George Washington University in Washington, District of Columbia They have two daughters.
Achievements
Membership
Treasurer European Research Area United Coalition Louisiana, 1977—1978. Chairman New Orleans delegate Louisiana Democratic Convention, 1980, 1982. Vice chairman New Orleans delegate, 1984.
Director Women's Lobby Network, 1980—1985. Founder Greater New Orleans Association Democratic Women, 1984. Member of American Bar Association, Association Women Attorneys, Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association, Louisiana Bar Association, National Organization of Women (Mid-South regional director 1983-1987, national secretary 1987-1991, executive vice president 1991—2001, president 2001-2009, Woman of Year).
Connections
Married Christopher Lornell. Children: Elizabeth Cady, Katherine Eleanor.
Named New Orleans Outstanding Young Career Woman, New Orleans Business and Professional Women, 1980. Named one of New Orleans 100 Women in Forefront, 1986. Recipient Law Alumni award, Loyola University, 1976, Milton Sheen award, 1978.
Named New Orleans Outstanding Young Career Woman, New Orleans Business and Professional Women, 1980. Named one of New Orleans 100 Women in Forefront, 1986. Recipient Law Alumni award, Loyola University, 1976, Milton Sheen award, 1978.