Marie Nord
Biography
Sister Marie Nord was a Minnesota Franciscan sister whose ministry was hospitality work for women. The People v. Nord (Colo. 1990) Colorado Supreme Court ruling on the indigency-determination error in her case is named for her.
The March 9, 1983 Nuclear Resister current-prisoner directory places Marie Nord, register 15365-013, in the federal women’s unit at Fort Worth. April 8 was projected release only. The directory does not identify the charge, first physical admission or actual discharge.
Distinct anti-nuclear custody episodes
The original October 18, 1982 newsletter names Nord and Pat Mahoney in the September 7 Rocky Flats arrest and their recognizance release. The November 30 sentencing report gives November 22 sentencing but says they were still free afterward. January 14, 1983 confirms Nord at Fort Worth and register 15365-013; June 6 lists her actually released. Her first sentence-admission day remains unknown. An authorized October 12, 2026 official BOP lookup for the contemporaneously documented register 15365-013 independently returned ANN MARIE NORD, not in BOP custody as of April 8, 1983. This verifies the DAY-precision federal endpoint; it does not prove the end of supervision or other custody and is not assigned to her separate 1985–86 county-jail episodes.
After the September 27, 1985 Martin Marietta action, Nord remained physically confined through transfer on a separate anti-Contra-aid protest warrant, described in December 9, 1985. January 20, 1986 dates her actual release December 16. July 18, 1986 separately documents May 1 sentencing and return to jail, followed by release in late May with earlier custody credited. These are not one uninterrupted jail term.
People v. Nord, 790 P.2d 311 (Colorado 1990), names her Ann Marie Nord, confirms the burglary dismissal and 60-day probation condition, and reverses the earlier appellate judgment with instructions to reinstate the criminal-mischief convictions. No identified, reusable portrait has been verified.
March 1986 conviction after earlier release
The Martin MX report individually names Al Zook, Mary Sprunger-Froese and Marie Nord as found guilty March 5, 1986 of criminal mischief exceeding $300 after a two-day trial before Judge Henry Nieto. Burglary was dropped at the February pretrial hearing. The report explicitly says they were released following the verdict pending an April 28 sentencing date that was still in the future. This is not a new confirmed jail admission or final sentence date; earlier actual custody and separately verified later May proceedings remain distinct. The phrase over a month of earlier detention is not converted to an exact served-day count.
The Nuclear Resister No.38, March 10, 1986, original PDF pages 5,6.
The March 9, 1983 Nuclear Resister current-prisoner directory places Marie Nord, register 15365-013, in the federal women’s unit at Fort Worth. April 8 was projected release only. The directory does not identify the charge, first physical admission or actual discharge.
The Nuclear Resister No.15, March 9, 1983, PDF pages 16.
The April 13, 2001 Ruidoso News obituary identifies Sister Marie Nord of the Franciscan Congregation of Our Lady of Lourdes in Rochester, Minnesota, and her peace and social-justice ministry in Colorado Springs and Albuquerque. It explicitly dates her birth to July 2, 1945, in Wynnum, Australia, and her death to April 9, 2001, in a car accident north of Roswell. These exact vital dates concern the same Franciscan peace activist; they are not custody endpoints and do not create a death-in-prison or release date. The obituary has no portrait of Nord; the nearby male photograph belongs to a separate eye-care advertisement.
The February 1984 AP account recalls four days in El Paso County Jail after an April 1981 Air Force Academy chapel protest, followed by dismissal.
