Heather Mac Donald

Heather Lynn Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor to the New York "City Journal", and a former lawyer. [ [http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/mac_donald.htm Manhattan Institute Scholar | Heather Mac Donald ] ]

Career

She graduated from Berkeley College, Yale University in 1978 [1985 Yale Alumni Directory, p. 501.] "summa cum laude," studying literary deconstructionism, which she later repudiated. [http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/heather_macdonald.htm and Manhattan Institute "op. cit."] She won a Mellon Fellowship to attend Clare College, University of Cambridge, receiving an M.A. in English literature. She returned to Yale in 1980 to work on a doctorate in comparative literature, but became dissatisfied with literary theory and withdrew after a semester. She graduated from the Stanford University Law School in 1985, later working for liberal Judge Stephen Reinhardt in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, but no longer practices law. ["op. cit."]

Personal beliefs

She has caused controversy in conservative circles by arguing that religion is not necessary for conservatism. [http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20061023/opledereligion50.art.htm] She is not religious herself, and has stated that it would be difficult to marry someone who regularly demonstrated piety, though she could marry someone who could joke about her atheism. [Lukeford.net "op. cit."]

elected Bibliography

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* "The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave," "City Journal" Winter 2004 http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html

References

External links

* [http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_nyt-excoriating.htm "Excoriating the Enablers, in 12 Chapters"] , By Robin Finn, "New York Times", November 28, 2000

See also the [http://www.nndb.com/people/081/000085823/ biography] at NNDB.