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'''Bernardine Rae Dohrn''' ([[née]] Ohrnstein, born [[January 12]], [[1942]]) is an American former leader of the 1969–1980 radical 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/ [Northwestern University School of Law#Children and Family Justice Center|Children and Family Justice Center]].

==Personal life==
Bernardine Dohrn was born Bernadine Ohrnstein in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]] in 1942 and grew up in [[Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin]], an upper-middle-class suburb of [[Milwaukee]].<ref name=lgbda1>Grathwohl, Larry, and Frank, Reagan, ''Bringing Down America: An FBI Informant in with the Weathermen'', Arlington House, 1977, page 103</ref> Her father, Bernard, changed the family surname to Dohrn when Bernardine was in high school.<ref>Lear, Patricia [http://(contracted; show full)

Dohrn now serves on the board of numerous human rights committees and teaches comparative law.  Since 2002, she has served as Visiting Law Faculty at the [[Vrije Universiteit]] in [[Amsterdam]]. Her legal work has focused on reforming the much criticized juvenile court system in Chicago and on advocating for human rights at the international level.  Dohrn is director and founder of the
 [http://www.law.northwestern.edu/cfjc/ Children and Family Justice Center], which supports the legal needs of adolescents and their families. ([<ref>http://www.law.northwestern.edu/cfjc/directorsmessage.html link (citation)]</ref>

Dohrn and Ayers recently resurfaced into news headlines as presidential candidate [[John McCain]] and his running mate [[Sarah Palin]] alleged that there were ties between Ayers and presidential candidate [[Barack Obama]].<ref>Bumiller, Elisabeth and Healy, Patrick. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/us/politics/10campaign.html McCain Joins Attacks on Obama Over Radical], ''The [[New York Times]]'', [[October 9]], [[2008]], last accessed [[October 10]], 2008. </ref><ref&(contracted; show full)[[Category:People from Milwaukee, Wisconsin]]
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