Experience

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  Mary Kay Green

  • currently in Lees Summit, MO, at 810 E Langsford Rd #[email protected]

  • author/J.D.

    • Sep 1977 - Present
    • currently in Lees Summit, MO, at 810 E Langsford Rd #[email protected]

    Employment Discrimination Attorney, public speaker, author, legal writer on cases, memoirist, member of NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness), ACLU, Democratic Party. Former chairperson of the Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women, Omaha, Nebraska. Susan B. Anthony recipient of the Omaha League of Women Voters, Face on the Bar Room Floor, Omaha Press Club, Woman of the Year, The Omaha Women's Political Caucus. Volunteer phone bank specialist for Democratic Presidential candidates and U.S. Senate candidates. Formerly worked at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial after working on Robert F. Kennedy's Presidential Campaign as I had on President Kennedy's Presidential Campaign. Volunteer for the election of President Barack Obama. Volunteer with Organizing for America, OFA for the Affordable Health Care Act. Former Director of Court Services for the Douglas County Juvenile Court before entering law school. Writer of non-fiction work and screenplay: They Let Mothers in Law School?

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  Self-Employed

  • Pubic Speaker, writer, advocate, comunity advocate

    • May 1977 - Present

    During my active practice, I represented plaintiffs in their job discrimination cases before local, state anti-discrimination agencies and the federal EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). I have written four books with two more to be published in 2015: AT WILL/NO DEAL, a handbook for employees about the civil rights exceptions to at will employment, and THEY LET MOTHERS in LAW SCHOOL? (a screenplay about my three years in law school, l974-1977). I was one of thirty women in the first large class of women law students out of 180 students at Creighton University Law School in Omaha, NE and one of ten mother law students. It is both serious and hilarious.As a speaker, I have been on national television (ABC the David Brinkley Show and ABC Phil Donahue Show, national Including National Public Radio twice, and regional and local radio and I have given over 300 speeches in my career including testimony on mental health services before the Nebraska Unicameral Health and Welfare Committee.Topics I can speak on are as follows:Know your Civil Rights as an Employee (At Will No Deal)Spirituality and Mental Illness (God talks to everyone including persons with mental illness). The Miracles of Medjugorje and the apparitions of the Blessed Mother since June 24, 1981 and my mother and my pilgrimage there.My screenplay: They Let Mothers in Law School?My book: Women of Courage: The Rights of Single Mothers and Their Children Inspired by Crystal Chambers A New Rosa Parks ( the history of a race, sex and pregnancy discrimination case).My book: Sundance and Cherokee Moon: About Robert Redford, Movies, Medjugorje, Miracles and Mania (about my passion for my family and friends, movies, justice and spirituality and my triumph over mental illness).

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  Omaha, NE

  • City Council Member

    • 1977 - 1981

    I was one of seven legislators. We voted on planning issues, liquor license issues, labor issues, public works issues, affirmative action issues, approved legal settlements, and proposed legislation to the Nebraska Unicameral relevant to city government among other duties. Omaha is a city of over 300,000 people.