Marie-Therese Connolly is an American lawyer, Coordinator at the Elder Justice and Nursing Home Initiative, at the
US Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United Stat ...
, and Senior Trial Counsel, in the Civil Division. She won a 2011
MacArthur Fellowship
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...
.
Book
In July 2023
Hachette books
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published Connolly's book The Measure of Our Age: Navigating Care, Safety, Money & Meaning Later in Life
Life
She graduated from
Stanford University with a B.A. in 1981, and from
Northeastern University School of Law
Northeastern University School of Law (NUSL) is the law school of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded as an evening program to meet the needs of its local community, NUSL is nationally recognized for its cooperative legal ...
with a J.D. in 1984. She helped draft the
Elder Justice Act.
She is Senior Scholar at the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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.
She is a Director of Life Long Justice at the
Appleseed Foundation.
References
External links
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"Read this: Marie-Therese Connolly wins MacArthur grant; Lonni Sue Johnson, artist with amnesia; women in the White House" ''Washington Post Reliable Source blog''
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American lawyers
MacArthur Fellows
Living people
Stanford University alumni
Northeastern University School of Law alumni
United States Department of Justice lawyers
American women lawyers
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women