Brigid Quinn, chief of staff to former D.C. Council chairman, dies at 70
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Version 0 of 1. Brigid Quinn, a chief of staff to former D.C. Council Chairman John A. Wilson who retired in 2007 as a spokeswoman for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, died March 1 at her home in Washington. She was 70. The cause was cancer, said her brother Kevin Quinn. Ms. Quinn worked with Wilson for nearly two decades beginning in the 1970s at the National Sharecroppers Fund, an advocacy organization for migrant workers. She supported his successful campaign for the D.C. Council in 1974 and joined his staff, working on issues including housing, rent control and gun control. She was serving as Wilson’s chief of staff at the time of his suicide in 1993. Ms. Quinn later was a legislative analyst for what was then the U.S. House Committee on the District of Columbia and as a speechwriter for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. At her retirement, she was deputy director for public affairs at the patent office. Bridget Sharon Quinn was born in Scranton, Pa., on Jan. 13, 1946, and began using the name Brigid as an adult. Her civic involvement included service on the board of the D.C. Coalition for the Homeless. Survivors include her mother, Gladys Quinn of Clarks Summit, Pa.; two sisters; and three brothers. Read more Washington Post obituaries : Craig Windham, anchor for two decades of NPR’s hourly newscasts, dies at 66 Elias Demetracopoulos, ‘enigmatic’ expatriate who opposed Greek junta from Washington, dies at 87 James V. Kimsey, a co-founder of AOL, dies at 76 |