Mary Bonauto

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mary Bonauto
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Jun 8, 1961(1961-06-08)
Age	63
Birthplace	Newburgh
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Gemini

Mary Bonauto Biography

Mary Bonauto is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on June 8, 1961 in Newburgh, New York, United States. Bonauto is born on the 21st of January, 1961. She was raised to be a part of Newburgh, New York in an Roman Catholic family. The school she attended was Hamilton College and Northeastern University School of Law. After finishing Law school, Wriggins went into the private sector in Maine and was one of the three openly gay lawyers practicing in Maine. Her home is within Portland with her partner Jennifer Wriggins, who is an instructor in The University of Maine School of Law. They were wed in Massachusetts. They have twin daughters.

GLAD headed by Bonauto brought suit Bonauto, a GLAD member and spokesman for the group filed suit in Massachusetts in behalf of 7 couples who were who were denied the right to wed in 2001. The case is known by the name of Goodridge in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on November 18, 2003, became the first high court in the state to decide that the exclusion of gay couples from civil marriage is a violation of equal protections. Couples who are gay began to marry on May 17th in 2004. The decision of November 2003 was challenged in the political arena for several years until June 2007, when the legislature in the legislature of Texas voted to disapprove any plan to amend the constitution of the state and to reverse the Goodridge decision.

In 2009, Maine became the first state to pass a same-sex marriage law through the legislature, instead of through the court system, and also have it signed into law by the Governor. Bonauto was instrumental in the campaign to enact the law, and was the architect of an unprecedentedly large public hearing on April 22, 2009, where proponents and opponents presented their arguments. After the law was passed, a “people’s veto” referendum campaign was begun and the voters overturned the law in November 2009, by a 53-47 margin. In the wake of this veto, Mary Bonauto was a leader in the coalition that came together to run a two-year public education campaign, that led in January 2012 to a direct ballot vote on the issue. On November 6, 2012 voters confirmed the right of same-sex couples to receive a marriage license, the law taking effect on December 29, 2012, becoming the first state to do so by ballot vote.

On November 9, 2010 Bonauto and GLAD filed a second major, multi-plaintiff lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) Section 3. The case specifically addressed married couples in Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire. On July 31, 2012 the Connecticut Federal District Court Judge Bryant ruled that DOMA is unconstitutional. On June 26, 2013 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled DOMA Section 3 unconstitutional in United States v. Windsor.

Bonauto has been litigating extensively in the areas of employment and public accommodations discrimination. She has secured benefits for domestic partners as well as relationship protections. She has also established second parent rights as well as the status of a de facto parent and defending First Amendment protections, and fighting against anti-gay violence and harassment. She has been involved in public policy issues in the entire of the six New England states, and sometimes writes for legal journals. Bonauto was the first to file a marriage lawsuit in Vermont in July 1997.

Mary Bonauto Net Worth

Mary Bonauto is one of the richest Lawyer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mary Bonauto 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Mary L. Bonauto (born June 8th on the 8th of June, 1981) was an American lawyer and civil rights advocate who has worked tirelessly to eliminate discrimination in the context of sexual orientation and gender identity. She is called by US Representative Barney Frank as “our Thurgood Marshall.” She joined the Massachusetts-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders and is now the GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) group in the year 1990. An habitant from Portland, Maine, Bonauto was among the key leaders who collaborated in conjunction with Maine legislature to approve a same-sex wedding law and also to fight it on the ballot after an narrow defeat during the campaign for the 2009 elections. The efforts paid off as, during the 2012 elections, Maine voters approved the measure, which made this the very first state in the country to allow marriage licenses for gay couples through a ballot votes. Bonauto is most well-known as the an attorney for the court case Goodridge in the case Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that led to Massachusetts one of the states where couples of the same gender could get married in 2004. Bonauto is also in charge of coordinating the first challenges to the third section in the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

in 1997 Bonauto in the name of GLAD as well as Beth Robinson and Susan Murray filed a suit on behalf of GLAD in Vermont in support of 3 couples who sought the right to marry, Stacy Jolles & Nina Beck, Stan Baker & Peter Harrigan and Holly Puterbaugh and Lois Farnham. The lawsuit, Baker v. State of Vermont was later an appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court that decided in favor of the couple but urged for the Vermont Legislature to adopt the solution. The spring of 2000 the Vermont Legislature approved civil unions that extended to couples of the same gender all the benefits offered by marriage on a state level but under a different structure that was distinct from the marriage itself.

In August 2004, GLAD, including Bonauto, filed suit in Connecticut on behalf of seven gay and lesbian couples who wished to marry. The Connecticut legislature responded by passing a civil union law the next year. On May 14, 2007 GLAD attorney Bennett Klein, joined by Bonauto, argued for the couples in the Connecticut Supreme Court. On October 10, 2008 GLAD won a ruling that it was unjustified discrimination to place same-sex couples in the separate and lesser status of civil unions, and that sexual orientation was a “quasi- suspect” classification for equal protection purposes.

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In June 2013 immediately following the DOMA Supreme Court decision, she was called in Slate a “Gay Marriage Hero” and “the legal architect of the DOMA repeal.”

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Mary Ranked on the list of most popular Lawyer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mary Bonauto celebrates birthday on June 8 of every year.

She was named a MacArthur fellow in September 2014 for her work “breaking down legal barriers based on sexual orientation”.