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Roberta Cordano
Roberta "Bobbi" Cordano (born November 29, 1963)[1] is the 11th president of Gallaudet University.[2][3] Cordano is the first deaf woman and the first openly LGBT person to become president of Gallaudet University; she is openly lesbian.[4] LifeCordano obtained her Juris Doctor degree at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1990. She was assistant attorney general for Minnesota.[5] She was assistant dean at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.[6][7] Cordano was awarded the Hubert Humphrey award by the University of Wisconsin.[8] She is among the first ten deaf women in the United States to have earned a Juris Doctor (JD) degree and is among the first 50 deaf women to have earned a doctoral degree, overall.[9] Cordano is the first deaf woman to become president of Gallaudet University. Elisabeth Zinser, a hearing woman, held the Gallaudet presidency for less than one week amidst the March 1988 Deaf President Now protests. Zinser was never officially installed as president before her resignation.[10] References
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