Grace Thorpe

Grace Thorpe (born 10 December 1921; died 1 April 2008) was a World War II veteran with the Women's Army Corps, receiving a Bronze Star Medal due to what she did in the New Guinea campaign. Later she became a tribal district court judge. She attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and then the Antioch School of Law. She received a Nuclear-Free Future Award in 1999 for her opposition to storing toxic and radioactive waste on indigenous land.[1]

Her father was Jim Thorpe.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Grace Thorpe Laureate page on Nuclear-Free Future Award site
  2. ↑ Obituary in the April 7, 2008 Boston Globe


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