Biography
Student and human-rights activist associated with Chicago’s St. Francis Catholic Worker House. Jailed in 1998 following the School of the Americas protest at Fort Benning.
Birth-year sources
- SOA Watch prisoners-of-conscience chronology — identifies Ruthy Woodring as 24 among the November 1997 Fort Benning defendants, supporting 1973 as her birth year.
- Clinton Presidential Library clemency file — independently identifies Woodring as a 24-year-old student and records her March 23–September 18, 1998 federal sentence.
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 identifies her as a University of Illinois Spanish student, seasonal bicycle messenger, and refugee-assistance and inner-city youth volunteer. 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 49; petition pages 27–32.
