12 Facts About Gay McDougall

Gay Johnson McDougall was born on August 13,1947, in Atlanta, Georgia and is an American lawyer who has spent her career addressing international human rights and racial discrimination.

Gay McDougall is currently a Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Leitner Center on International Law and Justice of Fordham University Law School.

Gay McDougall was Executive Director of Global Rights, Partners for Justice.

Gay McDougall's father was a hospital cook and her mother a high school math teacher.

Gay McDougall grew up in the Dixie Hills neighborhood of Atlanta.

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Gay McDougall attended Atlanta public schools and in 1965 graduated from Booker T Washington High School.

Gay McDougall earned her BA in social science from Bennington, her JD at Yale Law School, and her LLM in public international law at the London School of Economics and Politics.

Gay McDougall was the first American to be elected to the body of 18 international experts who oversee compliance by governments worldwide with the obligations established under the treaty.

Gay McDougall was elected to another four-year term on the CERD Committee in June 2015, and served on the Committee for a term that began on January 20,2016, and ended on January 19,2020.

In 1989, McDougall founded the Commission on Independence for Namibia, a bipartisan group of 31 distinguished Americans who monitored in detail the year-long process to independence mandated by the U N The Commission intervened to force modifications in critical legislation, such as the voter registration and election laws, which as drafted, threatened the fairness of the election process.

Gay McDougall was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1999 for her "innovative and highly effective" work on behalf of international human rights.

Gay McDougall received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1990.