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'''Bernardine Rae Dohrn''' (born [[January 12]], [[1942]]) is an American former leader of the [[1969]]–[[1980]] radical leftist organization [[Weatherman (organization)|Weather Underground]].  She is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the Director of Northwestern's [http://www.law.northwestern.edu/cfjc/ Children and Family Justice Center].

==Personal life==
Bernardine Dohrn was born in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]] in 1942 and grew up in [[Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin]]. Her father, Bernard Ohrnstein, changed the surname to Dohrn when Bernandine was in high school.<ref>[http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-1993/Rebel-Without-a-Pause/index.php?cp=2&si=1 Rebel Without a Pause - Chicago Magazine - May 1993 - Chicago<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>.  Her father was Jewish and mother was Christian Scientist with a Swedish background.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=sCXig_6abwkC&pg=PA278&lpg=PA278&dq=ohrnstein+Dohrn&source=web&ots=6pO9JyI5wk&sig=xGmUaZOyvJjuEvBzeA8HTKnWaP4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result</ref><ref>[http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-1993/Rebel-Without-a-Pause/index.php?cp=1&si=0#artanc Rebel Without a Pause - Chicago Magazine - May 1993 - Chicago<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>She graduated from [[Whitefish Bay High School]] where she was a cheerleader <ref>http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/CLA-L/2003/02/0066.php</ref>.  She attended [[Miami University]] for one year, then transferred to the [[University of Chicago]], where she graduated with honors with a B.A. in Political Science in 1963, and with a [[J.D.]] from the [[University of Chicago Law School]] in 1967. <ref>[http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/clinic/dohrn/dohrn.html Be(contracted; show full)

The couple turned themselves in to authorities in 1980. While some charges relating to their activities with the Weathermen were dropped due to [[prosecutorial misconduct]]<ref
 name=autogenerated1>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> (see [[COINTELPRO]]), Dohrn pled guilty to charges of aggravated battery and bail jumping, receiving probation.<ref> Milwaukee Sentinel, Jan. 14, 1981 </ref> She later served less than a year of jail time, after refusing to testify against ex-Weatherman [[Susan Rosenberg]] in an armed robbery case.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref name=autogenerated1 /> Shortly after turning themselves in, Dohrn and Ayers became legal guardians of the son of former members of the Weather Underground, [[Kathy Boudin]] and [[David Gilbert]], after they were convicted of murder for their roles in a 1981 [[Brinks robbery (1981)|armored car robbery]].{{Fact|date=February 2007}}

==Legal career==
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[[Category:People from Milwaukee, Wisconsin]]
[[Category:Members of Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)]]
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[[Category:COINTELPRO targets]]
[[Category:Terrorism in the United States]]
[[Category:Northwestern University faculty]]
[[Category:University of Chicago alumni]]