Ode to Nora Salomons | First Ombudswoman

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Nora was a pioneer.

After law school, she was a MP in the Lower House.

In 1987 she started in Amsterdam - being a woman - as the first “Ombudsman.”

I always marveled at how contradictory this sounded, but she herself thought this designation was fine because it would keep the office “sexless. 

She helped citizens who had complaints about the functioning of the municipal government, for example about bureaucracy.
She possessed a drive to protect the weak in Amsterdam.

After 18 years she had 20 employees and later the institution ombudsman was adopted in the rest of the Netherlands. She was a woman who stood up against injustice.

She lived to be 64 years old.

I refer for what she meant in the rest of her life, to Wikipedia.