Elizabeth Glidden Email and Phone Number

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Elizabeth Glidden served as a Minneapolis Council Member from 2005-2017, including as Vice President , chair of the Intergovernmental Relations Committee, a position that lobbies for the city at the State Capitol, and Chair of the Committee of the Whole, which oversees enterprise-wide policy and program matters. SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTSChief author of 2017 Minneapolis ordinance, supported by coalition of over 20 organizations, ensuring 5,000 Section 8/Housing Choice Voucher… Show more Elizabeth Glidden served as a Minneapolis Council Member from 2005-2017, including as Vice President , chair of the Intergovernmental Relations Committee, a position that lobbies for the city at the State Capitol, and Chair of the Committee of the Whole, which oversees enterprise-wide policy and program matters. SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTSChief author of 2017 Minneapolis ordinance, supported by coalition of over 20 organizations, ensuring 5,000 Section 8/Housing Choice Voucher recipients have protection from discriminatory denial of housing.Champion and strategist for the Orange Line (bus rapid transit line connecting Minneapolis to southern suburbs) and Orange Line Transit Station at I-35W/Lake Street, which will serve 100 buses an hour during peak travel period, including building coalition that resulted in 2007 federal grant of $133.3 million and final funding of $25 million in state bonds in 2017 legislative session.Lead author of landmark 2016 Minneapolis ordinance requiring sick leave benefits for employees, ensuring up to 100,000 Minneapolis workers will gain access to job protections when experiencing short-term illness.Led, as council point person, efforts to merge Minneapolis pensions into the State pension system (PERA), ensuring savings of over $20 million in 2012 alone. Created Clean Energy Partnership (CEP), a first-in-the-nation formal partnership between the City of Minneapolis and energy utilities Xcel Energy and CenterPoint Energy in support of the City’s Climate Action Plan and 2040 Energy Vision for energy efficiency, energy choices and renewable energy. CEP results are tied to energy franchise renewal process.Developed One Minneapolis One Read in 2011, a three-year citywide reading program focused on conversation about race that engaged thousands of city residents and hundreds of Minneapolis Public School students, including establishing key private and public partnerships, securing financial resources and in-kind support. Show less

Litigator representing individuals in employment and civil rights cases for over a decade and as a named partner with Hedin, Goldberg & Glidden P.A. Experience advising and representing clients in all aspects of the employment relationships including civil rights, contract, wage and hour, and more. Frequent speaker and writer on employment matters at educational seminars for lawyers and human resource professionals. Editor, Injunctive and Affirmative Relief (Chapter 40), Employment… Show more Litigator representing individuals in employment and civil rights cases for over a decade and as a named partner with Hedin, Goldberg & Glidden P.A. Experience advising and representing clients in all aspects of the employment relationships including civil rights, contract, wage and hour, and more. Frequent speaker and writer on employment matters at educational seminars for lawyers and human resource professionals. Editor, Injunctive and Affirmative Relief (Chapter 40), Employment Discrimination Law 2nd Supplement, 2000. Active member, amicus committee chair, and past president of the Minnesota Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association; amicus committee member, and annual conference committee member for the National Employment Lawyers Association.Longtime volunteer attorney representing applicants for asylum, The Advocates for Human Rights (1996-present).Legal Writing Instructor, University of Minnesota School of Law, 1996-1998. Show less