Linda Coffee
Linda Nellene Coffee (born 1942) is an attorney living in Dallas, Texas. Coffee is best known, along with Sarah Weddington, for arguing the precedent-setting United States Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.[1]
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Education
Coffee obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Texas in February 1968, and was licensed to practice in Texas three months later, in May 1968.[2]
Career
Coffee was a member of the Women's Equity Action League, an organization working toward equal employment opportunities for women. She and Weddington agreed to take McCorvey's case to challenge Texas' anti-abortion law. The resulting decision in 1972 invalidated several laws limiting access to abortions.
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External links
- The New York Times profile: "She Put the v in Roe v. Wade"
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