Lynn Yeakel, Spurred Into Politics by Anita Hill, Dies at 80

She nearly unseated Senator Arlen Specter after his aggressive grilling of Ms. Hill during Clarence Thomas’s 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

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