13 Facts About Simone Campbell

Simone Campbell is known as an outspoken advocate for social justice.

When Campbell was born in Santa Monica, California, to parents who had recently moved from Colorado, she was given the first name "Mary" in honor of her paternal grandmother.

Simone Campbell received a bachelor's degree in 1969 from Mount St Mary's College in Los Angeles.

In 1977, Simone Campbell received the degree of Juris Doctor from the University of California, Davis, School of Law, where she had been an editor of the UC Davis Law Review.

In 1978 Simone Campbell founded the Community Law Center in Oakland, California, which she served for the next 18 years as its lead attorney.

Simone Campbell practiced family law and worked on the needs of the working poor of her county in Probate Court.

Between 1995 and 2000, Simone Campbell was the General Director of her religious institute and oversaw its activities in the United States, Mexico, Taiwan, and the Philippines.

Simone Campbell was first recruited to lead NETWORK in 2004 and continues to serve as its executive director.

Simone Campbell attended the signing ceremony for the law and received a hug of gratitude from President Obama.

Simone Campbell led the Nuns on the Bus project, in which she participated.

Simone Campbell addressed the Democratic National Convention held in September 2012, and again in 2020.

Simone Campbell was among the people attentioned by then Pope Benedict XVI in his investigation of American nuns for communist views and promoting "certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith".

Unlike the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Simone Campbell supported the Affordable Care Act.