Roberta Cordano Explained

Roberta Cordano
Office:11th President of Gallaudet University
Term Start:January 1, 2016
Predecessor:T. Alan Hurwitz
Birth Date:29 November 1963

Roberta "Bobbi" Cordano (born November 29, 1963)[1] is the 11th president of Gallaudet University.[2] [3] Cordano is the first deaf woman and the first openly LGBT person to become president of Gallaudet University; she is openly lesbian.[4]

Life

Cordano obtained her Juris Doctor degree at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1990. She was assistant attorney general for Minnesota.[5] She was assistant dean at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.[6] [7]

Cordano was awarded the Hubert Humphrey award by the University of Wisconsin.[8] She is among the first ten deaf women in the United States to have earned a Juris Doctor (JD) degree and is among the first 50 deaf women to have earned a doctoral degree, overall.[9]

Cordano is the first deaf woman to become president of Gallaudet University. Elisabeth Zinser, a hearing woman, held the Gallaudet presidency for less than one week amidst the March 1988 Deaf President Now protests. Zinser was never officially installed as president before her resignation.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. The Herald-Press (Saint Joseph, Michigan), December 13, 1963, p. 5.
  2. Web site: News & Stories | Gallaudet University.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20151013101430/http://www.gallaudet.edu:80/news/presidential-search-three-finalists.html Presidential Search Finalists
  4. Web site: Top honor for first deaf, openly lesbian university president. Queer Forty. Staff. March 22, 2023.
  5. Web site: Her Own Way to the Top: AAUW . www.aauw.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160530081942/http://www.aauw.org/2016/05/17/roberta-cordano-her-own-way-to-the-top/ . 2016-05-30.
  6. Web site: Faculty and Staff | Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs. https://web.archive.org/web/20070810012339/http://www2.hhh.umn.edu/cgi-bin/directory.pl?uid=3794. 2007-08-10.
  7. https://mn.gov/deaf-commission/assets/2016_09_30_Roberta%20J%20%20Cordano%20Day%20(002)_tcm1063-258049.pdf State of Minnesota proclamation of Roberta J. Cordano Day
  8. https://law.wisc.edu/current/In_the_Media/Roberta_Cordano_90_Wins_Humphrey_2003-04-29 Roberta Cordano '90 Wins Humphrey Award
  9. Holcomb, Mabs and Sharon Wood. 1989. Deaf Women--A Parade through the Decades. Berkeley, CA: Dawn Sign Press, p. 87.
  10. https://web.archive.org/web/20151008041948/http://www.gallaudet.edu:80/board-of-trustees/presidential-search/finalist-candidates/roberta-cordano.html GU: President-Select

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