Biography
Orlando peace activist involved in Pax Christi and the United Nations Association. Jailed in 1998 following the School of the Americas protest at Fort Benning.
Birth-year sources
- School of the Americas Watch prisoner roster — identifies Orlando activist Rita Lucey as 63 at the November 1997 action.
- Orlando Weekly, January 28, 2015 — identifies the same activist as 80, supporting 1934 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 AT&T work and subsequent volunteering with hospice and domestic-violence survivors, along with her pastoral-ministry studies. 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 41; petition pages 27–32.
