Gender and Executive Leadership: Are We Ready for a Woman President? Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Date/Time:	Wednesday, 29 Mar 2006 at 8:00 pm
Location:	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
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Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
Categories:	Lectures
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Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is the eldest child of Ethel and Robert Kennedy and recently served two terms as Maryland's first woman lieutenant governor from 1995-2003. She lost an election to become Maryland's first woman governor in 2002. Before becoming lieutenant governor, Townsend served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice, where she worked to establish community-policing programs across the country. She currently is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Public Policy and president of Operation Respect, a nationwide character education program that teaches personal and social responsibility.

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A cum laude graduate of Harvard University and a graduate of the University of New Mexico Law School, she has made a national name for herself as an advocate of victims' rights and an innovator in the fight against crime. In office she served as Chair of the Maryland Cabinet Council on Criminal and Juvenile Justice and developed the first statewide initiative in the nation that targets crime hotspots.