WAND Women Speakers' Bureau
Speaker: Nan Grogan Orrock

Region Atlanta, GA and outward Honorarium None Expenses to be covered Travel, lodging, meals (if applicable) Topics of focus Federal budget priorities’ impact on states, women’s political empowerment

Grogan Orrock is the president of Women Legislators' Lobby (WiLL), a national multi-partisan network of women legislators working to impact federal spending priorities.

Representative Orrock is an eight-term Georgia State Representative representing in-town Atlanta neighborhoods. Orrock is Chair of the Committee on Intra-Governmental Coordination, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Health and Ecology, and serves on the Appropriations Committee and the Committee on Industrial Relations. Orrrock is a founder of the Legislative Women's Caucus and her legislative expertise includes health policy, women's issues, child/family policy, workplace issues, civil liberties, civil rights, and environmental issues.

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.