Bodi, Lorri (Frances Lorraine), 1951-2025
Biographical note
Frances Lorraine “Lorri” Bodi was born in Rhode Island in 1951. She grew up in Pennsylvania, while continuing to spend summers in Rhode Island. She earned a bachelor’s degree in literature and a master’s degree in teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and later earned a law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. In the 1970s, she moved to the Pacific Northwest, and for 13 years, she worked as an attorney for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 1992, she began working as a lawyer for American Rivers, and she later became a senior fish and wildlife advisor for the Bonneville Power Administration. In 2024, she was elected deputy mayor of Lake Forest Park, Washington. Bodi died in 2025.
Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Bodi in her interview; “Councilmember Lorri Bodi Profile,” (accessed November 2024), https://www.cityoflfp.gov/460/Councilmember-Lorri-Bodi; Bodi’s obituary, Seattle Times, April 27, 2025, (accessed December 2025), https://obituaries.seattletimes.com/obituary/lorri-bodi-1092841244.
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Oral history interview with Lorri Bodi
Oral history interview with Lorri Bodi, conducted by Clark Hansen in three sessions, from August 3, 1999, to February 1, 2000, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. Bodi discusses her career in the Pacific Northwest, where she specialized in environmental law. Bodi worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, American Rivers, and the Bonneville Power Administration.