Kim Gandy

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Kim Gandy (b. January 25, 1954) is an American feminist, and currently the President of the National Organization for Women (NOW).

Gandy was born in Louisiana and graduated from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in Lincoln Parish with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. Gandy soon took a job with AT&T, and, outraged that the firm required her husband's permission for employee benefits, she joined Louisiana NOW in 1973, where she spent the next several years involved in campaigns that would eventually overturn Louisiana's state "Head and Master" law, which gave husbands unilateral control over all property jointly owned by a married couple. Inspired by her activism in NOW, she studied law at Loyola University New Orleans, graduated in 1978, and took a position as assistant district attorney in New Orleans. She served as president of Lousiana NOW from 1979 through 1981, national secretary of NOW from 1987 to 1991, and executive vice president of NOW from 1991 to 2001. She was elected national NOW president in 2001, and re-elected for a second term in 2005.