Ellen Barry (attorney)
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Ellen M. Barry (born September 20, 1953) is an American attorney and public interest lawyer who focuses on prisoners' rights. She was a 1998 MacArthur Fellow.[1]
She grew up in Somerville, Massachusetts, as the second of ten children. She received a bachelor of arts degree from Swarthmore College in 1975 and a J.D. from New York University Law School in 1978.[1] She was admitted to the State Bar of California in November 1978.[2]