Last Update: August 29th, 2011
Huntington Woods resident Gilda Jacobs was among four Detroit-area women named "Feminists of the Year" by the Wayne County chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW).
Jacobs received the Loretta Moore Award for consciousness-raising on behalf of women Friday during Women's Equality Day at a private home in Detroit. Jacobs served as a state lawmaker for 12 years in both the state House and Senate, and is now president and CEO of the Michigan League for Human Services, a Lansing-based nonprofit.
"I am now a recovering state senator," she joked.
Jacobs said when she left public service, her husband John thought she would be spending more time at home–but that hasn't been the case. The League advocates for Michigan's low-income residents and she said, "The problem is, there's so much work left to be done."
Read more at the Huntington Woods-Berkley Patch.
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