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Nebraska since 2014, during her time the number of staff grew from just four people to a team of ten full time staff with two contact lawyers. Legal victories were won within LGBTQ equality, open government, and reproductive rights. She also supported expanding Medicaid
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Nebraska State Bar Association, Conrad took a job with the Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest, a non-profit, non-partisan law project providing legal counsel to the poor, minorities, and immigrants in the state of Nebraska (cite). She also has
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Conrad married her best friend from law school, Tom Conrad, and they now have two young children. She has been involved with the
Lincoln Bar Association, Lincoln YWCA, Nebraska LAPTOP Program, Nebraska State Bar Association, and the Volunteers Lawyers Project. She was also the vice chair of the
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Legislature, Second Session, and one of the bills, LB 933, would make it illegal at any point except to save the life of the mother. Conrad testified on behalf of the ACLU for this bill, and was a strong opponent to it (cite). During her time at the
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Sheriff in Seward County for over 25 years, and her mother has been a teacher at Lincoln Public Schools for over 15 years (cite). She earned her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of
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eligibility, banning predatory payday lending, eliminating the last vestiges of slavery from
Nebraska's state constitution, increasing the minimum wage, and increasing election election participation through a mass mailing of vote-by-mail applications (cite).
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During Conrad's time in office, she was one of only ten women in the 49-member
Nebraska Legislature. Conrad became a fan of politics as a teenager following the historic race for Governor pitting two women, Republican Kay Orr against Democrat Helen Boosalis.
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north side. Since her departure from the legislature, Conrad has served as the executive director of the ACLU of
Nebraska, and has testified at a multitude of hearings on topics ranging from free speech to abortion rights (cite).
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Conrad voted to override former Governor Dan Heineman's veto of LB 39, which was to impose limits on the initiative process in Nebraska. LB 39 was sponsored by DiAnna Schimek of the Unicameral's District 27.
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Systems (cite). She also served on the Performance Audit Committee, Retirement Systems Committee, Redistricting Committee, and chaired the Legislature's Innovation and Entrepreneurial Task Force (cite).
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Conrad voted to eliminate the death penalty in Nebraska in 2007. She was also a co-sponsor of LB1105 in 2010 that was intended to perform a cost study on the death penalty
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Nebraska-Lincoln in 2000, and in 2003, she earned her J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law (cite).
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Conrad left her role at the ACLU to run for Lincoln, Nebraska's District 46, which is her former seat.
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