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Jean Ledwith King has a record of achievement as an attorney, teacher, political activist, and advocate for women. King was a Law Review<\/em> graduate of the University of Michigan. With Lorraine Beebe, she co-chaired the Michigan abortion referendum campaign of 1972. After the defeat of this campaign, she and Eleanor O\u2019Brien, played a key role in the formation of the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1970 King organized Focus on Equal Employment for Women. As a result of the work of this organization, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) began in 1970 the first investigation of a university (University of Michigan) for sex discrimination in admissions, financial aid, academic and non-academic employment, curriculum, athletics, extracurricular activities, and services to students. This spurred a nationwide wave of interest from academic women throughout the nation and led to significant changes in the higher education establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

King, together with five other women, founded the Women\u2019s Caucus of the Michigan Democratic Party. This caucus was the first women\u2019s caucus in a major political party. In 1976 the caucus achieved an equal division of males and females on the Michigan national delegation, a model for the rules adopted four years later by the national party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1974 King drafted an administrative complaint relating to sex discrimination in the Houghton-Mifflin textbooks used in Kalamazoo schools. 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