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Women Trailblazers in the Law Project
View the Oral Histories


Brooksley E. Born, Chair

Women Trailblazers in the Law:
Our Visions, Our Voices

The Women Trailblazers in the Law Project (WTP) captures the oral histories of women pioneers in the legal profession nationwide, memorializing their stories in their own voices and preserving their experiences and observations for future generations. 

The women who entered the legal profession in the 1960's and earlier faced blatant discrimination and a variety of unique challenges and dilemmas. It is this history that Women Trailblazers in the Law is preserving – as told by the women who lived it.

 
 

 Donors

The Women Trailblazers in the Law Project, a public service program of the American Bar Association’s Senior Lawyers Division and Commission on Women in the Profession, acknowledges with gratitude the generous financial support of the following law firms, organizations and individuals:

To make a donation to the Women Trailblazers in the Law Project, visit https://donate.americanbar.org/fje/.

Arnold & Porter LLP
California Community Foundation
Carlton Fields
Cohen & Lombardo, PC
Covington & Burling LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Duane Morris LLP
Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP
Hogan Lovells LLP
Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Hunton & Williams
Jenner & Block LLP
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
McGuireWoods LLP
Munger, Tolles & Olson Foundation
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
Verna Myers Consulting Group, LLC
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP
White & Case LLP
Wilmer Hale LLP
Women’s Bar Foundation of the District of Columbia
Young Mayden LLC

Ruth Abrams
Nancy F. Atlas
Barbara A. Babcock
Carole K. Bellows
Brooksley Born
Amelia H. Boss
Lisa M. Brabbit
Nancy Buc
Ruth C. Burg
Nancy Duff Campbell
Ann M. Courtney
Ann K. Covington
Christine M. Durham
Antoinette L. Dupont
Betty W. Ellerin
Judy Feigin
Robert L. and Betty B. Fletcher
Tamar Frankel
Maryann S. Freedman
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Rosemary E. Giuliano
Gail M. Harmon
Ellen Hennessy
Carla A. Hills
Zona Hostetler
Robert K. Johnson
Carolyn Kelly
Gladys Kessler
Carolyn Dineen King
Patricia King
Joan D. Klein
Linda A. Klein
Noel A. Kramer
Louise LaMothe
Catherine A. Lamboley
Patricia Lewis
Carolyn B. McHugh
Anita P. Miller
Betty S. Murphy
Diana Murphy
Dorothy W. Nelson
Angela E. Oh
Andrea S. Ordin
Bettina B. Plevan
Pamela J. Roberts
Florence Wagman Roisman
Lynn Hecht Schafran
Grace Berg Schaible
Lois J. Schiffer
Patricia S. Schroeder
Mara Senn
Norma L. Shapiro
Janie L. Shores

Shirley A. Siegel
Constance Slaughter-Harvey
Dolores K. Sloviter

Fern M. Smith
Vicki O. Tucker
Patricia M. Wald
Pauline A. Weaver
Rebecca Westerfield
Karen Hastie Williams
Wendy W. Williams
Miriam E. Wolff

 
 
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