Oral history interviews of the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession Women Trailblazers in the Law Oral History Project, 2005-2008 (inclusive).

Hufstedler, Shirley M. (Shirley Mount), 1925-2016

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Shirley Ann Mount Hufstedler (August 24, 1925 – March 30, 2016) was an American attorney and judge who served as the first United States Secretary of Education under President Jimmy Carter from November 30, 1979 to January 20, 1981. At the time of her secretarial appointment, she was the highest ranking-woman in the federal judiciary, serving as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Born in Denver, Colorado, she was raised in New Mexico, Mo...

Roberts, Betty, 1923-2011

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Betty Roberts was born in Arkansas City, Kansas on February 5, 1923. Her family relocated to Texas, where Roberts was raised, in the 1930s. She attended Texas Wesleyan College in Fort Worth for one year in 1940 before marrying Bill Rice in 1942. They moved to Oregon after World War II where Bill became a banker and Roberts raised their four children. In 1955, Roberts enrolled in evening classes at Eastern Oregon College in La Grande before the family relocated to Portlan...

Gorelick, Jamie, 1960-

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Jamie Gorelick (born May 6, 1950) is an American lawyer who served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1994 to 1997, during the Bill Clinton administration. She was appointed by former Senator Tom Daschle to serve as a commissioner on the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, which sought to investigate the circumstances leading up to the September 11 attacks, and also served as Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae....

Frankel, Tamar.

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Schaible, Grace,

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Smith, Fern M. (Fern Meyerson), 1933-

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Fletcher, Betty Binns, 1923-2012

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Shapiro, Norma L.

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District court judge in Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1997. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 712149200 ...

Black, Barbara A. (Barbara Aronstein), 1933-

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American Bar Association. Commission on Women in the Profession. Women Trailblazers in the Law Oral History Project

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The Women Trailblazers in the Law Project was initiated in 2004 and interviewed senior women lawyers from all areas of the profession: the judiciary, academia, government, law firms, corporations, and public interest organizations. From the description of Oral history interviews of the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession Women Trailblazers in the Law Oral History Project, 2005-2008 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 427298836 ...

Resnik, Judith, 1949-1986

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Judith Resnik was born on April 5, 1949 in Akron, Ohio to Dr. Marvin and Sarah Resnik. She attended Akron public schools, graduating from Firestone High School in 1966. She continued her education, receiving a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970, and a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1977. In January 1978, she was selected to join the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). While at NASA...

Nelson, Dorothy W.

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Robinson, Barbara Paul

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Vladeck, Judith P.

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Judith Pomarlen Vladeck (1923-2007) was a prominent labor and civil rights lawyer, and a senior partner in the Manhattan law firm of Vladeck, Waldman, Elias and Engelhard at the time of her death. She was a graduate of Hunter College and Columbia University Law School. In 1957 she joined the law firm of her husband, Stephen Vladeck, a labor lawyer. Over the years the firm represented many New York area unions. Judith Vladeck became a specialist in cases involving allegations of workplace discrim...

Ellerin, Betty Weinberg

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Cranston, Mary B.

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Melli, Marygold Shire

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Hernández, Antonia.

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Babcock, Barbara A.

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Determan, Sara-Ann, 1938-

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Schroeder, Mary Murphy, 1940-

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Burg, Ruth, 1926-

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Seymour, Stephanie K., 1940-

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Hostetler, Zona,

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Wolff, Miriam 1981-

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Winston, Judith A.

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Schafran, Lynn Hecht

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Feminist lawyer and educator, Lynn Hecht Schafran was born October 11, 1941, in New York City to Geraldine (Schaeffer) and David K. Hecht. She studied art history at Smith College (B.A. 1962) and Columbia University (M.A. 1965), and later attended law school at Columbia (J.D. 1974), where she worked as a research assistant to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. From 1979 to 1981, Schafran was national director of the Federation of Women Lawyers Judicial Screening Panel. She has been director of Le...

Siegel, Shirley Adelson

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Walbolt, Sylvia H.,

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Sloviter, Dolores K. (Dolores Korman), 1932-

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Wahl, Rosalie E. (Rosalie Erwin), 1924-

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Rosalie Wahl was born as Sara Rosalie Erwin on August 27, 1924 in Gordon, Kansas, the third daughter of four children born to Claude William and Gertrude (Patterson) Erwin. Growing up in the Depression era, Wahl experienced tremendous personal hardship. Her mother died when Wahl was three years old and she, with her sisters and brother, moved to live with her maternal grandparents on a farm near Birch Creek, Kansas. Four years later, Wahl's grandfather and brother were killed by a t...

Zobel, Rya W., 1931-

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Freedman, Maryann Saccomando, 1934-

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Dinkins, Carol E.

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Wald, Patricia MacGowan

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Plevan, Bettina B.

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Herrera, Irma,

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Mayden, Barbara Mendel

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