Madeleine Tress was an American employment lawyer, LGBT rights activist and memoirist who worked in Washington, DC, and San Francisco.
10 Facts About Madeleine Tress
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Madeleine Tress lost her job working for the US government in the 1950s as a direct result of the lavender scare.
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Madeleine Tress was a graduate of Georgetown University and earned degrees from the London School of Economics, New York University and UC Berkeley.
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Madeleine Tress had a longtime career as a lawyer and ran her own firm in the city of San Francisco.
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Madeleine Tress argued a case about job discrimination at the Supreme Court.
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Madeleine Tress was a longtime resident of San Francisco who was very civically active on behalf of a variety of civil rights issues.
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Additional materials related to Madeleine Tress's activism are available at the San Francisco Public Library as part of the Len Evans papers.
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In 2006 Madeleine Tress self-published a memoir titled Rainbows on My Ceiling.
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Madeleine Tress donated a copy of this book to the San Francisco Public Library.
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Madeleine Tress lived for decades with her partner, teacher Jan Sibley, who she met in 1962.