Kathryn M Braeman

Kathryn (Kat) M. Braeman is a longtime feminist who lived on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, before she moved to the San Francisco Bay area. She worked for the US Department of Justice, the US Senate, and the US Department of Defense as an administrative judge. She served in leadership roles in the American Bar Association, the National Association of Women Judges, the Cosmos Club, and on the national board of AAUW. In the 1970’s she organized NOW and NWPC in Nebraska. She then ran for a seat in the US Congress in 1972 in the First District of Nebraska where she was described by the local paper as an “eloquent and dedicated spokesman for human rights” before they endorsed the incumbent. She then went to law school and earned a law degree from the University of Nebraska. While in law school, she interned for Women’s Lobby in Washington, DC. She has a BA from Northwestern University and an MA in English from the University of Kansas. Kat met Carol Burris in 1971 when she came to Washington, DC, to lobby for child care and the ERA when her children were one and five. She saw she had power as a "grass root" from Nebraska -- especially as the Senior Senator was ranking on the Judiciary Committee.