Talk:Nan Orrock

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This text had no sources and was at time too laudatory, in my opinion. ==Biography== Senator 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. 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. 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. She is currently the President of Women Legislators' Lobby, a national, non-partisan group of legislators, which works for balanced budgets, increased spending on families, education, health and child care, and a reduction in excessive and wasteful military spending. 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]], [[Georgia Equality]], Georgia State AFL-CIO, and the [[American Civil Liberties Union]]. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 20:41, 9 May 2016 (UTC)