ABA
Firsts Honored at ‘Maggies’
Posted Aug 13, 2007, 06:36 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
ABA President Karen J. Mathis told a packed house of more than 1,300 people at a luncheon to honor groundbreaking women lawyers that she longs for the day in which it’s no longer unusual for women to achieve leadership roles.
“I’d like to say, as the third woman president of the association: No more numbers,” she said yesterday at the 17th annual Margaret Brent Achievement Awards luncheon.
Winners of the awards, sponsored by the Commission on Women in the Profession, had a lot of firsts, the ABA Journal reports. They are:
--Roxana C. Bacon, the first woman partner at her law firm and the first woman president of the State Bar of Arizona.
--Judge Marsha S. Berzon of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the first female law clerk for Justice William Brennan.
--Angela M. Bradstreet, California’s labor commissioner. She was former president of California Women Lawyers and the San Francisco Bar Association.
-- Marva Jones Brooks, the first woman and first African-American appointed as city attorney of Atlanta. She became chair of the National Conference of Bar Examiners in 2005.
--Judge Irma S. Raker of the Maryland Court of Appeals. She was the first woman prosecutor in Montgomery County.
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