Janet Benshoof

Janet Benshoof
Born	1947 (age 69–70) Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
Alma mater	University of Minnesota, Harvard Law School
Known for	Center for Reproductive Rights, Global Justice Center
Awards	MacArthur Fellows Program

Janet Benshoof (born 1947, in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota) is an American human rights lawyer and President of the Global Justice Center. She founded the Center for Reproductive Rights, the world's first international human rights organization focused on reproductive choice and equality.

Benshoof received her B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota in 1969, and her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1972. She has taught human rights law at Bard College and Harvard Law School and has been a visiting lecturer at Yale, Columbia, Rutgers, Case Western Reserve, and Harvard Universities.

Benshoof has established landmark legal precedents in the U.S. Supreme Court and international forums. Her successful legal efforts range from the approval of emergency contraception for women by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to the application of international rape law to ensure the rights of women in the Iraqi High Tribunal's prosecutions of Saddam-era war crimes. Her training on gender rights and international law at the Iraqi High Tribunal resulted in the first legal decision in the Middle East to confer women rights under international law.

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