Fitch and The Empowerment Project aim to help women and families by providing opportunities and resources for women to upskill, grow, and educate.
Independent Women’s Forum is pleased to announce that Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch is the latest entry in our popular series of Champion Women profiles.
Fitch was the first state attorney general to sign Independent Women’s Voice’s Women’s Bill of Rights, which recognizes immutable differences between women and men and upholds real equality, as opposed to dismantling the hard-earned rights of women to accommodate a radical transgender movement.
Fitch is most famous nationally as “the woman who helped take down Roe v. Wade,” as a Newsweek headline put it. She is primarily responsible for getting Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which led to the Court’s reversal of the Court’s 1973 abortion rights ruling, to the high court. IWF does not take a position on the issue of abortion, but Fitch’s projects to empower women for what might be called a “post-Dobbs world” are another matter.
Under the umbrella of The Empowerment Project, Fitch aims to help women and families by providing opportunities and resources for women to upskill, grow, and educate.
As part of her commitment to empowering others, Fitch has also launched a campaign to end human trafficking in Mississippi. Fitch explains that many mistakenly think of trafficking as an international crime that involves border crossings and professional traffickers.
Fitch was mentored by the late Evelyn Gandy, who went from being the first woman to graduate from Ole Miss’s law school to serving as Lieutenant Governor.
Evelyn Gandy ran for Governor of Mississippi in 1983 and was defeated in the runoff. It was the glass ceiling she did not break. But she has a mighty fine protégé, who’s gaining a national reputation. Who knows what might be next?
