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Simone Campbell
American lawyer, activist, and nun
Simone CampbellSSS (born October 22, 1945), is an American Catholic religious sister, lawyer, lobbyist and executive director of NETWORK.
She belongs to the Sisters of Social Service.
Sister Simone Campbell, SSS, one of the nation's leading champions for social justice, and a member of The PuLSE Institute National Advisory.
She is known as an outspoken advocate for social justice.
Early life and education
When Campbell was born in Santa Monica, California, to parents who had recently moved from Colorado, she was given the first name "Mary" in honor of her paternal grandmother.
She was the eldest of four siblings.
She joined the Sisters of Social Service, an international Catholic religious congregation rooted in the Benedictine tradition, in 1964 and took her final vows in 1973, adopting the name "Simone."[1]
She received a bachelor's degree in 1969 from Mount St.
Mary's College in Los Angeles. In 1977, Campbell received the degree of Juris Doctor from the University of California, Davis, School of Law, where she had been an editor of the UC Davis