Gloria Allred
| Gloria Allred | |
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Allred in 2012
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| Born |
Gloria Rachel Bloom July 3, 1941 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Education | B.A., University of Pennsylvania M.A., New York University J.D., Loyola Law School |
| Occupation | Attorney |
| Employer | Allred, Maroko & Goldberg |
| Spouse(s) |
Peyton Bray (m. 1960; div. 1962) William Allred (m. 1968; div. 1987) |
| Children | Lisa Bloom |
| Website | gloriaallred.com |
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Gloria Rachel Allred (née Bloom; born July 3, 1941) is an American civil rights lawyer who is noted for taking high-profile and often controversial cases; she has been particularly involved with cases involving the protection of women's rights.
Gloria Rachel Bloom was born into a Jewish working-class family of Philadelphia on July 3, 1941. Her father worked as a salesman; her British-born mother was a housewife. After graduating from the Philadelphia High School for Girls, she attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she met her first husband, Peyton Bray. The couple had their only child, Lisa, on September 20, 1961, and divorced shortly after. Lisa Bloom is also an attorney and is best known as a former Court TV anchor.
Gloria Bloom moved back in with her parents and continued her education. In 1963, she earned a bachelor's degree in English, graduating with honors. Over the objection of her professor, she wrote her honors thesis on black writers. She tried her hand at a variety of jobs before she decided to become a teacher, taking a position at Benjamin Franklin High School. She began work on a graduate degree at New York University, where she became interested in the civil rights movement. After earning a master's degree, she became a teacher and, in 1966, moved to Los Angeles, California, and lived in Watts. She worked for the Los Angeles Teachers Association and taught at Jordan High School and Fremont High School.
During a vacation in Acapulco in 1966, Bloom was raped at gunpoint. She discovered she was pregnant and sought an abortion, which was illegal for doctors to perform at the time. After undergoing the procedure, she began hemorrhaging and became infected, only recovering after being hospitalized. She did not report the rape, she said, because she didn't think anyone would believe her.
In 1968, she married William Allred. She enrolled in Southwestern University School of Law and later transferred to Loyola University School of Law in Los Angeles. Allred graduated and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1975. Allred divorced her husband in 1987, retaining her married name.
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