In 1983, in response to an article on Rev. Dr. Pruitt in the Los Angeles Times, the Army began an investigation of her for “moral dereliction due to homosexual tendencies. Rev. Pruitt went to the ACLU and a gay advocate lawyer’s group, Lambda Legal Defense and Education. These lawyers, Susan McGrievey and Mary Newcombe, took her case. The case went back and forth in the federal courts until it finally reached the Supreme Court, where a partial win allowed Rev. Pruitt and all LGBT persons to sue the military for discrimination based solely on a person’s sexual and/or affectional preference. She won numerous awards, including being named in 1993 The Advocate’s (a long running LGBT magazine from the early 1970’s) first named Woman of the Year.