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Biography: Jan Goodman
Janice Goodman was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1935. During high school in the early 1950s, she first encountered progressive political culture by attending hootenannies and Pete Seeger concerts. Upon graduation from the University of Pennsylvania in 1957, she worked in a variety of political movements in New York. After participating in Congress of Racial Equality-sponsored demonstrations in New York and Maryland, she went South in the summer of 1964. She spent a month in Meridian and went back to Mississippi in November 1964, and then went to Washington, D.C. to work for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Like a number of civil rights veterans, her southern experience inspired her to go to law school. Later she was one of the founders of the first feminist law firm with Carol Bellamy and Susan Deller Ross, who is best known as one of Anita Hill's attorneys. In her law practice today, Goodman works on women's issues and employment discrimination cases involving women and people of color.
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