New York representative Louise M. Slaughter died last week at the age of 88. She was trained as a microbiologist and was one of the longest-service members of the US House of Representatives. Among her many accomplishments was serving as lead author of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008. This landmark legislation protects individuals from genetic discrimination in health insurance and employment; it was designed to help ease discrimination concerns that might keep people from getting genetic tests that could benefit their health. The law also enables people to take part in research studies without fear that their DNA information might be used against them in health insurance or the workplace. According to Eric Green of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), "We have truly lost a genomics champion. Louise Slaughter had the vision that GINA was needed to ensure continued advances in genetics and genomics research, especially for clinical applications — and she was completely right. Our research community will remember her commitment to these important social and ethical issues." GINA is among the laws that will be accessible via the website of the NHGRI-funded LawSeqSM project, for which Consortium chair Susan M. Wolf is Co-PI with Ellen Wright Clayton of Vanderbilt and Frances Lawrenz of the University of Minnesota. LawSeqSM is dedicated to building a legal foundation for translating genomics into clinical application; the website will go live in spring, 2018.