Biography
Former Presentation Sister, special-education teacher and Pax Christi activist. Jailed in 1998 following the School of the Americas protest at Fort Benning.
Birth-year source
- SOA Watch prisoners-of-conscience chronology — identifies Mary Earley as 67 among the November 1997 Fort Benning defendants, supporting 1930 as her birth year.
The April 27, 1998 petition by clemency counsel Debra K. Hannula places this defendant among the January 1998 Fort Benning illegal-re-entry convictions before Judge Elliott, carrying six months and a $3,000 fine. Its January 22 trial/sentencing account differs by one day from an earlier January 21 news report, so the new sentencing field uses month precision rather than choosing an unresolved day. The individual biography confirms March 23, 1998 prison entry. The biography describes her earlier life as a Presentation Sister, special-education teaching in New York hospitals, and later soup-kitchen volunteering in Florida. These records concern a request for clemency; they do not establish that a pardon or commutation was granted.
Clinton Presidential Library, individual biography PDF page 36; petition pages 27–32.
