Diamond, Ann Pecora, 1946-

The elder daughter of Dorothy and David Pecora, Ann Pecora Diamond was born in Yonkers, N.Y. She grew up in Saranac Lake, N.Y., where her father was chief surgeon at Ray Brook Hospital; during World War II, her mother had served as chief nurse of a field hospital under General Patton. She married Stephen L. Diamond, a lawyer, in 1967. They lived on a commune in Santa Monica, Calif., in the early 1970s and were divorced in 1977. Diamond has degrees from Syracuse University (B.A. 1967) and the University of California, Los Angeles (B.S. 1976) and continued her graduate study in biology at Yale (1977-1978). At Yale she was an associate in research in hematology at the Medical School (1979-1984) and worked in the development office, eventually serving as associate director for stewardship (1990-1993). She sued Yale for gender and age discrimination; as of October 2000, the suit was still pending.