Alumnus/Alumna of the Month

Nancy Duff Campbell (’68)

Read an Interview with Nancy Duff Campbell.

Nancy Duff Campbell is a founder and Co-president of the National Women's Law Center , one of the nation's pre‑eminent women's rights organizations. A recognized expert on women's law and public policy issues, for over thirty 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.

Campbell has been named by Working Woman magazine as one of the 25 heroines whose actions over the last 25 years have advanced women in the workplace, and a Woman of Genius by Trinity College . She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for her work to improve child support enforcement and 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. 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, and was honored by the Center for Law and Social Policy at its 25th Anniversary Dinner. She has served on the District of Columbia Bar Board of Governors, including its Executive Committee, and currently is a member of the Women Law and Development International Board of Directors, Alliance for National Defense Board of Advisors, Community Tax Law Report Board of Advisors, Institute for Women’s Policy Research Board of Advisors, National Conference of State Legislatures Child Care Advisory Committee and Campaign for Family Leave Income Advisory Committee. She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Association.

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 Center , 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 Welfare Law Center ) in New York.