Posted on 12/01/2012 7:25:27 PM PST by Coleus
Jeanne Monahan is the new full-time president of the March for Life Education & Defense Fund, which organizes and runs the March for Life in Washington each January.
The organizations board of directors unanimously voted to appoint Monahan to the post.
She succeeds the late Nellie Gray, founder and president, who died in August at age 86. Monahan, a former board member, had been serving as interim president since Grays death.
Jeanne is a strong pro-life advocate who will continue the strong leadership of Nellie Gray and bring us closer to a culture of life, said Patrick Kelly, chairman of the board, in a Nov. 19 statement announcing the appointment. The board and I are very much looking forward to working with Jeanne in this new full-time capacity and are looking forward to our largest march in history this January.
The 40th annual March for Life will be held Jan. 25 on the National Mall.
Prior to her new appointment, Monahan was director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council in Washington, serving as a spokeswoman on life issues and as a regular media contributor on topics related to the dignity of human life. Before working for the council, she served in various capacities at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Monahan has a bachelors degree from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., and a masters of theological studies from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America in Washington.
The March for Life has grown into one of the signature events of the pro-life movement. Gray started it to protest the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide. After the first march in 1974, she established the March for Life Education & Defense Fund to sustain it.
I wish that the March for Life would refocus, from promoting the Paramount Human Life Amendment to promoting Nullification of the Supreme Court’s abortion decisions by the Governors of the fifty states.
May God bless her and the March for Life.
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