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The Maine Women's Lobby was founded in 1978 by nine women, including Patricia E. Ryan, Linda Smith Dyer, Lois Galgay Reckitt, and Janet T. Mills. [2] [3] During the 1978 Maine Legislative Session, the group worked to fund battered women’s shelters, but when the session concluded, there was no money appropriated for the shelters.
The Maine State Bar Association (MSBA) is a voluntary bar association for the state of Maine. The Maine State Bar Association was formally created by an act of the Maine Legislature on March 6, 1891 "for the purpose of promoting the interests of the legal profession and of instituting legal reforms."
Co-founder of Hardy Girls Healthy Women, activist, author, researcher and professor at Colby College [16] Mary Cathcart (1942–) 2013 Former Maine State Representative and State Senator; co-director of Maine NEW Leadership program of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center [17] Mary Farrar (1949–) 2012 Victims' advocate Ruth L. Lockhart: 2012
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Agnes Robinson (1900): [21] First female lawyer in Franklin County, Maine; Iola S. Kearney (1920): [22] First female lawyer in Augusta, Maine [Kennebec County, Maine] Shirley Cogswell: [1] First female to serve as the Chief Justice of the Pleasant Point – Passamaquoddy Tribal Court (1980) [Washington County, Maine]
The Augusta County Sheriff's Office said another caregiver claimed she walked into a bedroom and reportedly saw Jackson fondling the woman, who was in her 90s, according to an arrest report. He ...
The ballot question passed, and same-sex marriage has been legal in Maine since 2012. The League opposed the opening of casinos by Maine's tribal nations in 2018. [24] In 2019, the organization attempted to keep conversion therapy (the pseudoscientific practice of trying to change an person's sexual orientation) legal in Maine. [25]
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