Kate Kendell is the Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Kendell was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Ogden, Utah. She attended Weber State University as an undergraduate and University of Utah Law School. After working for a private law firm in Salt Lake City, Kendell took a position with the ACLU of Utah in 1990 and began doing civil rights law. In 1994 she moved to San Francisco to become Legal Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, becoming Executive Director in 1996. In this interview, Kendell discusses discusses the freedom to marry movement from the vantage point of the legal strategy to win marriage, including the ways in which the various organizations collaborated. Further, she details pivotal cases including In re Marriage Cases (2008), Hollingsworth v. Perry (2013), and Tanco v. Haslam (2015).
Title
Kate Kendell on Legal Strategy,
the National Center for Lesbian Rights,
and LGBT Legal Organizations
Published
Berkeley, CA, Oral History Center, 2017
Full Collection Name
Freedom to Marry Oral Histories
Type
Text
Archive
The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
Note
Kendall, Kate. "Kate Kendell on Legal Strategy,
the National Center for Lesbian Rights,
and LGBT Legal Organizations." Interview by Martin Meeker in 2016. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2017.
Interview date(s) 2016
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