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Mary Anne Sedey
Mary Anne Sedey, Sedey Harper Westhoff
Staff Report//July 11, 2024//
St. Louis
Throughout her career, Mary Anne Sedey has advanced the rights of employees, particularly women.
Along with fellow POWER lister Donna Harper, formerly a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission attorney and now her law partner, Sedey won a nearly $5 million racial-discrimination verdict for two hotel employees and a $47 million class action settlement in a sex-discrimination suit against a rental company.
Sedey also argued and won a unanimous ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that a woman could bring a sex-discrimination case against an Illinois judge despite his judicial status.
The POWER List: Employment Law 2024
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