Trailblazing Maine lawmaker Lois Galgay Reckitt dies at 78
After spending many happy summers at Goose Rocks Beach in Maine, Lois Galgay told her mother when she was 7 that she wanted to move to Maine.
Her mother suggested she wait until she grew up. She waited, but she did end up in Maine in her 20s and became the fiercest advocate for woman and children the state has ever seen, her decades-long advocacy ending only with her death from cancer Oct.
30, 2023, at the age of 78. Maine recognized her achievements by inducting her into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame and the Deborah Morton Society, and by giving her awards for her seminal work on domestic violence.
The judicial system, the state bar association and the police chiefs’ association all honored her. But she also was a leader on the national stage.
