Mary Ann Glendon

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President George W. Bush and Laura Bush stand with 2005 National Humanities Medal recipient Mary Ann Glendon.

Mary Ann Glendon (born October 7, 1938 Pittsfield, Massachusetts) J.D., LL.M., is the United States ambassador to the Holy See and the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She teaches and writes on bioethics, comparative constitutional law, property, and human rights in international law. She is a pro-life feminist.

1 Career
- 1.1 Quotes
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Career

Glendon graduated from University of Chicago Law School, where she served on law review.

She was appointed by President Bush to the President's Council on Bioethics, and is also the author of Rights Talk; A Nation Under Lawyers, and A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The National Law Journal named Glendon one of the "Fifty Most Influential Women Lawyers in America" in 1998.

In 1995 she was the official Vatican representative to the international 1995 Beijing Conference on Women sponsored by the United Nations where she was contested for the anti-condom declarations about HIV: The Holy See in no way endorses contraception or the use of condoms, either as a family planning measure or in HIV/AIDS prevention programmes..

Glendon is currently the first female President of the Roman Catholic Church's official Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, appointed by Pope John Paul II on 19 January 1994.

Her nomination as United States ambassador to the Holy See was announced on 5 November 2007.^[1] The U.S. Senate voted to confirm her on December 19, 2007.^[2]

She has been mentioned as among the possible Bush Supreme Court candidates, and is rumored to be a huge fan of the Dropkick Murphys.

She presented her Letters of Credence to Pope Benedict XVI on 29 February 2008.

[edit] Quotes

"What is clearly 'old-fashioned' today is the old feminism of the 1970s — with its negative attitudes toward men, marriage and motherhood, and its rigid party line on abortion and gay rights."^[3]