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WiLL
President Nan Grogan Orrock
March
2007
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After
ten terms in the Georgia State House of Representatives,
Nan Grogan Orrock was elected to the State Senate
in 2006.
Sen.
Orrock’s legislative expertise includes
health policy, women's issues, child/family policy,
workplace issues, civil liberties, civil rights,
and environmental issues. She is a founder of
both the Georgia Legislative Women's Caucus and
the Working Families Agenda caucus.
She
has served since 1997 as President of the Women
Legislators’ Lobby, a national network of
women state legislators launched by Women’s
Action for New Directions.
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Orrock's successful legislative initiatives include
passage of the Georgia Family Medical Leave Act, the
Prescriptive Equity for Contraceptives Act, the Chlamydia
Screening Act, Georgia Hate Crimes Act, and the Omnibus
AIDS statute. She has been named Public Health Legislator
of the Year for her efforts. In 1996 Orrock worked with
a legislative team to pass landmark legislation regulating
landfills and has continued to monitor landfill issues
and advocate for environmentally sound policy on air
and water, solid waste, and nuclear waste.
Orrock
is the Chair of the Labor and Workforce Development
Committee of the National Conference of State Legislators.
She is a founding member and Secretary of the National
Labor Caucus of state legislators. She is a member
of the Bakery, Confectionery, and Tobacco Union and
was employed at Nabisco for 17 years.
She
is the Chair of the board of the Center for Policy
Alternatives and serves as a Trustee of the Sapelo
Foundation. She has served since 1997 as President
of the Women Legislators’ Lobby, a national
network of women state legislators launched by Women’s
Action for New Directions.
Senator
Orrock has been recognized and honored recently by
the Center for Policy Alternatives, the Center for
Democratic Renewal, Georgia Conservation Voters, the
Human Rights Campaign Fund, Georgia Equality, Georgia
State AFL-CIO, and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Her
activism began as a young college student when she
stepped into the streets with the 1963 March on Washington
for Jobs and Freedom. She also worked with SNCC in
Atlanta and Mississippi and led a community civil
rights project in Black Belt counties of her home
state of Virginia in the mid-sixties.
Senator
Orrock received her B.A. in English from Mary Washington
College of the University of Virginia. Her work experience
spans the fields of philanthropy, civil rights, union
and community organizing. She is the mother of two
grown sons.
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