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Claire Fitzgerald

Attorney, U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights

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Claire Fitzgerald has been an attorney with the Kansas City, Missouri, office of the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), since 2001.  She provides legal guidance and conducts investigations in the area of civil rights compliance under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Boy Scouts of America Equal Access Act.  She has conducted presentations for elementary, secondary, and post-secondary entities and interest groups in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.

Ms. Fitzgerald received her bachelor's degree from Park University in Parkville, Missouri, majoring in Management/Computer Information Systems and Mathematics.  She obtained her law degree from the University of Denver, where she focused on discrimination law and trial practice.  Prior to practicing law in the Federal government, she worked as a financial analyst and staff instructor for the Bureau of Prisons.  She later interned with the Office of the United States Attorney and then began work for small law firms in the private sector that focused on employment discrimination.  Her work with the Office for Civil Rights provided the opportunity to continue a career with the Federal government while continuing to practice in the area of discrimination law that she enjoys.

She lives in Shawnee, Kansas, with her husband and two children.

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