Jill Norgren is Professor Emerita of Political Science at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She is the author of several books, including Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America's First Women Lawyers (NYU, 2013), and Belva Lockwood: The Women Who Would Be President (NYU, 2007).
Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers is an inspirational
story of individual successes and even more important, a historical
analysis of the march toward improved gender equality in America. *
Trial Magazine *
I cannot even begin to do justice to these stories, so I recommend
it as reading for everyone. I have always considered Ruth Bader
Ginsburg an inspiration, but now I know the names and stories of
other trailblazers to admire: Ruth Abrams, Joanne Garvey, Constance
Harvey, Herma Hill Kay, Shirley Hufstedler, Belva Lockwood, Janet
Reno, Catherine Roraback, Norma Shapiro, Ada Shen-Jaffe, and so
many more... Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers is not just
the story of what women went through to attain their current place
in the law, but an empowerment to keep the fight for equality going
strong. This book is highly recommended for law school libraries.
-- Law Library Journal
[A]n interesting look at the lives of women who joined the legal
profession in the middle and later part of the last century...[I]t
offers tales both fascinating and frustrating about barriers and
burdens women suffered as they fought their way into the legal
profession -- The Champion
This remarkable volume collects the life and career stories of more
than a hundred female lawyers, all part of the so-called 'second
wave'of the movement, that is the period after women gained
suffrage and other full citizenship rights. These are women who
have written important scholarship, served as Deans of major
institutions, risen to the highest ranks of law practice while also
devising new forms of public service---their stories mark a true
revolution in the profession. The production of the book itself is
as remarkable as the content a vast collaborative effort of oral
history taking and writing, now organized with an historians fine
hand. It will be useful for years to all scholars of the legal
profession as a model and an inspiration. -- Barbara Babcock,Crown
Professor Emerita, Stanford Law School, author of Fish Raincoats, A
Woman Lawyer's Life
Jill Norgren has written a compelling portrait of women on the
front lines of the ongoing struggle for gender equality in the
legal profession. Her book eloquently describes a central feature
of the civil rights revolution that continues today, and reminds us
not to take for granted the hard-won victories of those whose
stories she tells. -- John Shattuck,author of Freedom on Fire:
Human Rights Wars and America's Response
The words of the women lawyers here tell an inspiring yet sobering
story of the path women lawyers blazed in the 20th century. They
all, even the most successful and influential, faced the roadblocks
of gender discrimination as they made their way through law school
and up the professional ladder, and as they confronted the enduring
challenge of balancing their personal and professional lives. Their
stories are both a window into the past and a beacon for the
future, revealing just how far women lawyers have advanced as well
as what lies ahead in the 21st century. -- Virginia G.
Drachman,author of Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American
History
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