Roberta "Bobbi" Cordano (born November 29, 1963) is the 11th president of

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. Cordano is the first deaf woman and the first openly

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person to become president of Gallaudet University; she is openly lesbian.

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Cordano obtained her Juris Doctor degree at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1990. She was assistant attorney general for Minnesota. She was assistant dean at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Cordano was awarded the Hubert Humphrey award by the

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. She is among the first ten deaf women in the United States to have earned a Juris Doctor (JD) degree and is among the first 50 deaf women to have earned a doctoral degree, overall. Cordano is the first deaf woman to become president of Gallaudet University. Elisabeth Zinser, a hearing woman, held the Gallaudet presidency for less than one week amidst the March 1988 Deaf President Now protests. Zinser was never officially installed as president before her resignation.GU: President-Select
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Common Past, Common Future: USDA & Gallaudet Create Opportunities for Students
USDA, Dec 09, 2016

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