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Former President of NOW Dies

HeadlineSep 22, 2005

The former President of the National Organization for Women, Molly Yard, has died at the age of 93. She led NOW during the fight over the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Yard was elected president of NOW in 1987 after working for nearly a decade on its national staff. She stepped down in late 1991, after suffering a stroke earlier that year. NOW’s membership grew by more than 100,000 during Yard’s tenure as president.

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