Eleanor Norton

Votes Cast

50

Yea Rate

10.0%

Bills Sponsored

10

Missed Votes

14.0%

Eleanor Holmes Norton is the Democratic non-voting Delegate from Washington, D.C., a civil rights attorney and longest-serving D.C. delegate in history championing statehood and voting rights.

Eleanor Holmes Norton is the non-voting Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the District of Columbia, a Democrat first elected in 1990 serving her eighteenth term. A graduate of Antioch College, Yale Graduate School, and Yale Law School, Norton was a civil rights lawyer who argued cases before the Supreme Court, chaired the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under President Jimmy Carter, and served as a tenured law professor at Georgetown University. As D.C.'s delegate, she cannot vote on final passage of legislation but participates fully in committee work and floor debate. In the 119th Congress, Norton reintroduced the District of Columbia statehood bill under the name Washington, Douglass Commonwealth in honor of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. She serves on the Oversight and Transportation and Infrastructure committees and prioritizes D.C. statehood, voting rights, home rule, and federal investment in Washington neighborhoods.