Nancy Duff Campbell

• Women’s rights, with emphasis on low-income women and families
• Successful Supreme Court litigation establishing right to AFDC benefits, child support enforcement
• Appointed by Congress to U.S. Commission on Child and Family Welfare

Nancy Duff Campbell is a founder and former Co-President of the National Women's Law Center, one of the nation's pre-eminent women's rights organization forty years Campbell has participated in the development and implementation of key legislative initiatives and litigation protecting women's rights, with a particular emphasis on issues affecting low income women and their families.

She has litigated in several successful Supreme Court cases in her fields of study. These include establishing that two-parent families with unemployed mothers are entitled to AFDC benefits in Califano v. Westcott, and the establishment of a uniform right to child support enforcement services for all custodial parents without regard to income in Parents Without Partners v. Massinga. Campbell played a central role in drafting and pressing a national agenda on child care, which culminated in passage of the first comprehensive child care legislation since World War II and several improvements in the succeeding years. She also contributed to the expansion of the rights and remedies of military women facing sexual harassment, unfair family policies, and stereotyped limitations on their jobs and ability to serve in combat, through congressional legislation and Department of Defense policies.

She was appointed by Congress to the U.S. Commission on Child and Family Welfare to study and make recommendations on a range of issues including child support, custody and visitation, family services, and family and juvenile court systems.

Campbell has been named by Working Woman magazine as one of the top 25 heroines whose actions over the last 25 years have advanced women in the workplace. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for her work to improve child support enforcement. She is the recipient of the District of Columbia Bar's William J. Brennan Award, in recognition of her exemplary legal career dedicated to service in the public interest. Campbell was also honored by the Center for Law and Social Policy at its 25th Anniversary Dinner, and has been recognized by her law school as an "NYU Alumnus/Alumna of the Month."

Campbell received her undergraduate degree from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1965 and her law degree from New York University School of Law in 1968. Prior to her work with the National Women's Law Centerr, she was a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center and Catholic University School of Law in Washington, D.C., and an attorney with the Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law (now the Center for Law and Economic Justice) in New York.