Norton, Gale Ann, 1954-
Gale Ann Norton (born March 11, 1954) is an American lawyer and government official. She notably served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush.
Born in Wichita, Kansas and raised there and in Thornton, Colorado, she earned B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Denver. Following her graduation from law school, Norton worked as a senior attorney at the Mountain States Legal Foundation from 1979 to 1983. Norton was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution during 1983 and 1984 before taking a position at the U.S. Department of Agriculture as an assistant to Deputy Secretary Richard Edmund Lyng. From 1985 to 1990, she served as Associate Solicitor for the United States Department of the Interior, in which capacity she managed attorneys employed by the National Park Service and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Norton returned to Colorado after her stint at the Department of the Interior, and was elected as the state's first female Attorney General in 1991. As Attorney General, Norton led the state's attorneys in defending state laws, including Colorado Amendment 2, a 1992 state constitutional amendment that prohibited any level or branch of state government from recognizing homosexuals as a protected class. She unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1996, losing the Republican primary to Wayne Allard.
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