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Dr. Rita Mae Kelly, UTD’s Andrew R. Cecil Distinguished Chair In Applied Ethics and Former Dean

Oct. 15, 2001

Dr. Rita Mae Kelly, an internationally renowned scholar, leader in the area of women’s rights and holder of the Andrew R. Cecil Distinguished Chair in Applied Ethics at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), died Sunday, Oct. 14, at her home in Richardson after a lengthy illness. She was 61.