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Holtzman, Elizabeth, 1941-

Elizabeth Holtzman (born August 11, 1941) is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives. A Democrat, she represented New York's 16th congressional district for four terms from 1973 to 1981. After leaving Congress, she became the first woman to serve as District Attorney of Kings County (1982-1989) and the first woman to hold the office of New York City Comptroller (1990-1993).

A native of Brookly, New York, she graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School there before earning degrees from Radcliffe College of Harvard University and Harvard Law School, one of only 15 women in a class of nearly 500 men at the latter. While at Harvard Law, she was a member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), assisted in creating the Law Students' Civil Rights Research Council, taught English at Harvard College, and was a law clerk for civil rights attorney C. B. King.

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