Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett will be the featured speaker at the J. Reuben Clark Law Society’s Annual Fireside on Friday, January 23, 2015.
Dr. Swett established the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice in 2008 and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer. This human rights organization is proudly carrying on the unique legacy of the late Congressman Tom Lantos who, as the only survivor of the Holocaust ever elected to Congress, was one of our nation’s most eloquent and forceful leaders on behalf of human rights and justice. In addition to managing the Lantos Foundation, Dr. Lantos Swett teaches human rights and American foreign policy at Tufts University. She also taught at the University of Southern Denmark while her husband, former Congressman Richard Swett, was serving as the U.S. Ambassador in Copenhagen.
Her varied professional experiences include working on Capitol Hill as Deputy Counsel to the Criminal Justice Sub-Committee of the Senate Judiciary Committee for then Senator Joe Biden and as a consultant to businesses, charitable foundations, and political campaigns.
Dr. Lantos Swett graduated from Yale University in 1974 at the age of 18 and earned her Juris Doctor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1976. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Southern Denmark in 2001. Dr. Lantos Swett has been married for 31 years to former Congressman and Ambassador Richard Swett and they are parents of 7 children and 2 grandchildren.
The fireside will take place live in the Little Theater of the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah at 6:00 p.m. with a reception following at 7:00 p.m. The broadcast will be available through the LDS Church satellite system at 6:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Mountain Time. Chapter leaders around the world are planning now to hold local events.
By Danielle Dallas