Paula Louise Ettelbrick (October 2, 1955
Stuttgart, Germany – October 7, 2011
Manhattan)
was a lawyer, based in New York City. She worked for the LGBT community, focusing on defining family to include those in the community.
Career
After law school, she stayed in Detroit to work for a law firm there before moving to New York City after two years. She went to work for the
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, better known as Lambda Legal, is an American civil rights organization that focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities as well as people living with HIV/AIDS ( PWAs) through impa ...
. From 1988 until 1993, she was the legal director.
She went on to become executive director of the
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission from 2003 until 2009, going on to serve in the same position at the
Stonewall Community Foundation.
Ettelbrick was a lecturer at
Barnard College's Women's Studies Department and at,
New York University School of Law, she was an adjunct professor.
Personal life
She was born on an American Army base to Robert and Judi Ettelbrick. She received her law degree from
Wayne State University in 1984 and her undergraduate degree from
Northern Illinois University in 1978.
Ettlebrick died of
primary peritoneal cancer
Primary peritoneal cancer or carcinoma is also known as serous surface papillary carcinoma, primary peritoneal carcinoma, extra-ovarian serous carcinoma, primary serous papillary carcinoma, and psammomacarcinoma. It was historically classified und ...
. She had been raising two children, Adam and Julia, with former partner Suzanne B. Goldberg. Her partner at her death was Marianne Haggerty.
Publications
* ''Same-Sex Marriage: Are We On the Path to Liberation Now?'' Co-written with Julie Shapiro and in 2004, printed in the ''
Seattle Journal for Social Justice''
Honors and awards
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) named an annual award in her honor to recognize either an individual or organization for advancing LGBT attorneys.
In 2019, she was one of fifty inaugural honorees for the
National LGBTQ Wall of Honor.
References
External links
Paula L. Ettelbrick papers, 1986-1993.
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1955 births
2011 deaths
Deaths from cancer in New York (state)
Wayne State University Law School alumni
American LGBT lawyers
20th-century American women lawyers
20th-century American lawyers
21st-century American women lawyers
21st-century American lawyers
21st-century American LGBT people
Northern Illinois University alumni
German LGBT rights activists
LGBT academics
American LGBT rights activists
LGBT educators
20th-century American LGBT people