[4] At Brandeis, she played on the women's basketball team[5] and had her first taste of activism as a member of the Northern Student Movement.

[4] Reckitt moved to Portland, Maine, after graduating from Boston University, being familiar with the state from summer vacations in her youth.

[4] In 1984, she moved to Washington, D.C., to an elected post as executive vice president of the National Organization for Women, a position she held until 1987.

[2] From 1987 to 1989, she was deputy director of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, a political action committee that she had co-founded in 1980.

[2] By 2010, she was overseeing a budget of $1.4 million, with 30 staff members, three outreach offices, and a battered women's shelter.

[4] Reckitt was elected to the Maine House of Representatives as a Democrat from South Portland (District 31) in 2016 and served until she died in 2023.

[19] She introduced the Equal Rights Amendment to the Maine House of Representatives in an attempt to have the state ratify it four times during her tenure.

[29] Galgay Reckitt died from colon cancer on October 30, 2023, in South Portland, at the age of 78.

[19][30] After her death was announced, Governor Janet Mills and President of the State Senate Troy Jackson issued statements praising Galgay Reckitt.