in Oregon’s history to be admitted to practice Judge Mercedes Deiz law and the second African-American female Judge Jean Lewis A Century of Service By Hon. Adrienne attorney in Oregon. By Noreen Historic Pullout: Women Nelson, (Saltveit) Multnomah Mercedes put out her own shingle at McGraw. Advancing the Bar County Circuit the Loyalty Building, primarily doing By Judy A. C. Edwards, Executive Director. Court. bankruptcies, marital dissolutions, child Who could custody matters and juvenile law. Later she deny that e June Multnomah Lawyer historic Mercedes Frances joined Nels Peterson’s firm. During this women lawyers pullout focuses on women and how they Deiz was born in time, Mercedes was active in numerous today play a have advanced the bar. We chose women New York City community and legal associations, including significant role lawyers who have made significant on December 13, the Urban League, the NAACP and the in Oregon’s legal impacts on the profession to profile, asked 1917, the oldest MBA. In 1962, she became the MBA system? eir members to write about their insights, of 10 children of secretary/treasurer - the highest office a contributions to perspectives and personal experiences and a Czechoslovakian mother, Mary Kuzma woman could achieve in the association at bench and bar are others to give an historical overview of Lopez and a West Indian father, Frank the time. seldom questioned in today’s world. women in the Portland law community. Lopez. Mercedes chose to attend Harlem’s We thank all who contributed to this issue. Wadleigh High School, a three-mile walk Aer working as a trial lawyer for eight years Fiy years ago, it was a different story. from her home. A highlight of her high and serving as a worker’s compensation So it is interesting to reflect upon the Readers are encouraged to share their school experience was meeting First Lady administrative judge for two years, Governor career of Jean Lewis, an able leader in thoughts on any part of this pullout and Eleanor Roosevelt. Mercedes was on the Tom McCall appointed her a district court the legislature and Oregon’s first female we welcome your suggestions for topics stage because she was a candidate for judge, making Mercedes the first African- Circuit Court Judge in future issues. If you would like to lunchroom director (a position she later American woman to be appointed in write a story or article for the pullout, won). e First Lady congratulated all of Oregon. In 1972, she ran for a circuit court Jean Lagerquist Lewis, a trail-blazing woman please contact me at [email protected] or the candidates and singled out Mercedes judge position and won, beating seven male attorney and judge, was born in Portland on 503.222.3275. by name, telling her that the only way opponents in the process. at election July 17, 1914 to a family of modest means. to get ahead was to do the things you made Mercedes the first African-American From the time she read a newspaper article needed to do and be willing to work for to be elected to remunerative office. She was about a judge at age 12, she dreamt of the rights of the young, for establishing it. She took Eleanor Roosevelt’s advice re-elected in 1978, 1984 and 1990. Aer becoming a lawyer and a jurist. a conciliation court for Multnomah to heart since she had so oen heard the County, and for serving as president of same words from her mother. Mercedes She graduated from Lincoln High School the Oregon Juvenile Judges Association. graduated from high school in 1934. in 1932 and worked for Lipman Wolfe She also served on various Oregon task Department Store in order to earn her way forces seeking better ways of dealing with Working to pay her way through Hunter through Northwestern School of Law. She families in distress. College, Mercedes had a variety of jobs, graduated in 1938 as a class officer and the including theater usher, switchboard only female student. operator and ticket clerk at a WPA theater in Harlem run by two young unknowns - In 1939 she opened her own law office Orson Welles and John Houseman. While with $50, taking “anything that walked in working at the theater, Mercedes first the door,” as she said in a later interview. considered a career in law because people Mercedes Deiz and her husband Carl naturally confided in her and she helped enjoying an MBA event. During World War II she served as a rent- them with their problems. four six-year terms, Mercedes reached the enforcement attorney in Portland, and later mandatory retirement age of 75 and became moved to Washington D.C. on the staff of In 1948, a senior judge, still putting in time on the the General Counsel, handling complicated she bench. She became Of Counsel to the Tooze foreign currency problems occasioned by the moved to Duden Creamer Frank and Hutchison firm, war. In 1944 she married Henry L. “Hank” Portland where she handled arbitrations. Lewis, who served in the 10th Mountain and she Division overseas. found Mercedes led a life of accomplishment. She secretarial served as director of the National Center for Jean and Hank had one child, a daughter, work at State Courts and of the National Association who died tragically in a motor vehicle the IRS for Women Judges, of which she was a accident during the 1970s. and later founding member. Mercedes was a Woodrow at BPA. Wilson Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law Aer the war, Jean Lewis returned to Mercedes School, where she taught family law. She was private practice. She was elected, as Judge Jean Lewis met her a founding member of OWLS. a Democrat, to the Oregon House of husband, Representatives in 1954, graduating to the roughout her career, Judge Lewis was Carl, Mercedes worked tirelessly on the Oregon Oregon Senate in 1956 and 1960. In 1961, active in community affairs, including when they Supreme Court Task Force on Racial/ she was chair of the Rules Committee, a Mercedes Deiz in front of her Girl Scouts and the Salvation Army’s both were Ethnic Issues in the Judicial System and the member of Ways and Means and Judiciary chambers in 1970, on the day Greenhouse program for street children. working MBA’s Status of Women Committee. She and was elected unanimously as president of her investiture as a district She was also active in Queen’s Bench, and for the served as a Director of the Pacific Ballet pro tem of the Senate later that year. court judge in 1989 served as a panelist for Oregon IRS. eir eatre and the Portland Guadalajara Sister Women Lawyers’ first spring conference. marriage lasted until her death, on their City Association. Still later that same year, Governor 56th wedding anniversary. Hatfield (a former colleague in the Senate), Her many honors included awards from She received many honors and awards appointed her to become the first female the MBA, the Portland chapter of Hadassa, Mercedes worked as a legal secretary including the OSB’s Award of Merit, the Circuit Court Judge in Oregon. In that Lewis & Clark College, the Oregon for Graham Walker before attending OWLS Mother of Achievement Award post she was a pioneer in juvenile and Psychiatric Association and the National Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and and the Association of Black Lawyers family law, but she was also remembered Recreation Association. Both she and her Clark College (now known as Lewis & Distinguished on the Bench Award. as a judge of “compassion and firmness,” as husband were ardent outdoor people, Clark Law School) as a night student. In In 1997, Hunter College conferred an then Governor Hatfield foresaw in making hiking, skiing and mountain climbing. 1959, she graduated fourth in her class (the honorary degree of doctor of laws on her the appointment. only woman in the graduating class), while because of her “lifelong devotion to equality At the time of her retirement in July, 1978, working in the daytime and raising three in all forms, and her passionate advocacy As a judge, Jean Lewis was quickly she had practiced law for almost 40 years, children (Bill, Karen, and Gilbert) with the on behalf of children, minorities and the recognized by her peers and the parties serving as judge for 17 1/2 of them. support and encouragement of her husband. cause of justice.” before her for her preparation, efficiency When Mercedes passed the bar exam, she and skill in getting to the heart of each became the first African-American� woman��� Continues on next page �case. She�� was an eloquent crusader� for �Continues on next page Women Lawyers Who Markowitz & Herbold, argued for the Pope, 317 Or 151, 854 P2d 461 (1993). It’s Judge Mercedes Deiz plaintiff. Joyce Harpole, from Stoel Rives, all there. Her 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Continued from first page Have Shown the Way argued for the defendant. Plaintiff had opinions reflect the same insightful and By Lynn Stafford, held an exclusive distributing contract compelling analysis of the law that made e practice of law has benefited Markowitz with the defendant company and the case Circus Circus such an established precedent. tremendously from the life of Judge Herbold et al. involved plaintiff’s claim that defendant Deiz. She was a pioneer and strong had breached that agreement. It was not ere are others who probably don’t even advocate for professionalism, the rule is article is an easy case to explain to a jury, in terms know how strong an impression they of law and diversity. Her life will be a personal. It of either liability or damages. I watched made on me. Pam Jacklin showed me that beacon in Oregon’s legal history. acknowledges a as first Barrie and then Joyce argued you could be a serious full-time lawyer debt to people their version of the case to the jury. I was and still have time to make a significant e Honorable Adrienne Nelson impressed by their professionalism. ey contribution to the community. She sat who would be Excerpt taken from Benchmarks, astonished to argued cogently, in my office (I doubt she recalls this) and logically, Winter/Spring 2006, “Hon. Mercedes F. think I might Deiz” by Katherine H. O’Neil. owe them anything at all. I have been a convincingly. ey “...she managed civil litigator in Portland for 25 years, “…Mandatory retirement kept Deiz with a practice emphasizing complex demonstrated successfully to work complete from realizing her o-stated goal of commercial cases. e nature of my continuing on the bench until another practice requires me to deal with, and command of the four days a week at a facts and total African-American woman succeeded confront, accountants, entrepreneurs, her. e goal was realized March 23, bankers, developers, insurers, engineers facility with the time when it was hard concepts of the 2006 with the investiture of Adrienne and, of course, other attorneys, all under for women lawyers to Nelson. Nelson wrote, ‘Judge Deiz was a conditions in which both the stakes and case. And the Joyce Harpole jury listened wonderful role model and mentor to me. the stresses are very high indeed. Whether be taken seriously...” When I first moved to Portland and began they are clients, experts or adversaries, intently. Missing completely from the case was any hint that to meet attorneys, meeting Judge Deiz most (but no longer “all”) of these are told me that even if I didn’t have time to had a profound effect on me. As a female men. When I returned to my native the gender of the two opposing attorneys participate in outside chartable activities was in any way a factor for the jury. attorney of color who had accomplished Portland in 1982, there were damn few at the time, there were many causes that so much and broken many barriers, Judge women who stood up in a courtroom could benefit from the legal advice. Sally Deiz was so warm, encouraging and and argued on behalf of strong men and “Missing completely Landauer proved by example that devotion open that I felt an immediate connection multimillion-dollar institutions about from the case was to family and a serious legal practice were not to her. roughout the years, she took high-risk disputes and complex business mutually exclusive. By carving out a niche time to check on me, both personally and transactions gone wrong. any hint that the in Trusts and Estates early in her career, she professionally…She was the first person to managed successfully to work four days a tell me that I should be a judge. What she is is not a claim to being a pioneer. gender...was in any week at a time when it was hard for women did for me she did for countless others but By the early eighties, women regularly, lawyers to be taken seriously unless they it touched my life in a very special way.’” if perhaps still infrequently, appeared in way a factor...” billed 2000 hours a court and were performing as well as their year. Editor’s note: Judge Nelson is the second male counterparts at trial. Several were I realized that two women of my age African American woman appointed to prosecutors or public defenders, others Carol Emory, had not only gained the confidence of the Multnomah County Circuit Court. litigated as part of their divorce practices, first a client and their clients to try a complex commercial Watch for the July/August Multnomah and still others tried personal injury then a friend, is transaction, but had demonstrated Lawyer, which will feature Judge Nelson cases. So, women were not discouraged an outstanding conclusively by their professionalism in a judicial profile article. (at least actively) from going to court. example of what that such confidence was fully justified. I But, whether they were assumed to be a woman lawyer knew I wanted the opportunity to do the unable to understand in-depth business can do by herself. same, and Barrie and Joyce had provided Judge Jean Lewis transactions, or whether the perception Without the the inspiration as well as the belief that I Continued from first page lingered that women lacked facility with support of a big could do it. ese two fine trailblazers are numbers and balance sheets, the fact law firm or the Carol Emory both deceased now. It breaks my heart, remains: in the early eighties, you could backing of an roughout her career, Judge Lewis was not least because they will have missed my count on your fingers the women who experienced mentor, she has established highly respected both as a person and expression of appreciation and gratitude. were engaged as lead attorneys in complex an excellent reputation as an international for her very positive influence on the commercial litigation. lawyer totally on her own. An office in legal and political systems in Oregon. I practiced law in Beijing, for goodness sake! Warmly human as a person, she brooked Vermont before no nonsense or lack of preparation in “...you could count coming home to So many other female lawyers critical to the courtroom. Always “on top of” the Oregon. At the on your fingers the development of women in law remain case before her, she expected the same time (1979-1982), unnamed, a glaring omission. But, as I preparedness of counsel. Vermont had no the women who said, this is a personal tribute and note women judges at of thanks to the individual women who In an interview aer her retirement, were engaged as all. Almost out touched my life and influenced my career. Judge Lewis acknowledged being of a sense of duty lead attorneys eir careers have not really paralleled conscious of being under scrutiny on - to compensate the bench. She told the OSB Bulletin in commercial for this glaring Hon. Liz Perris “...they share the that she hoped other women would omission find that she had blazed a trail that was litigation.” - I seriously considered going on the common element helpful to them. bench as a career path. On my return to Oregon, however, I saw that I would not of success and is article acknowledges my gratitude to On a personal note: as a trial lawyer in be obligated to blaze that trail here. One some of the women who were the notable fulfillment... her court during a three day hard-fought of my first appearances was before Judge exceptions to the general rule. By their trial in the early ‘70s, I can testify to Liz Perris. She impressed me so much, professionalism, dedication and talent, they heretofore certainly the fact that she did just that. It was a with a seriousness of purpose and natural demonstrated to me, to other women, and privilege to try a case before her because authority, underscored by the incredible of limited access to – crucially – to the predominantly male of her command of the courtroom and scope of her knowledge of the Bankruptcy movers and shakers in the commercial her interest in the case and the parties. Code. at I never really considered a women.” world, that women could vie on an equal Others concurred that she treated both judicial career mine or one another’s, but they share footing with men in a courtroom on a men and women fairly and gave grace again is at least in the common element of success and complex commercial matter. e following and dignity to the bench. (Comments of part a testament fulfillment in a field of law which, if not off represent those particular women who Neva Elliott, Ron Gevurtz and Richard to my confidence limits, was heretofore certainly of limited showed me the way. Burke, OSB Bulletin.) in the level of access to women. ey may not have professionalism been the very first women to venture into One instance She died in 1991 at the age of 77. Ten and knowledge these realms of male domination, but they stands out in my years later, the OWLS Foundation demonstrated were among the early arrivals, when the mind as both a honored the 40th anniversary of her not only by Judge paths were not clearly delineated, when revelation and appointment to the bench at a dinner Perris but also by their acceptance was still tentative. I have a turning point gala, with former Governor and the many other followed, close on their heels, unimpeded for my career. In US Senator Mark Hatfield, her old women who by the obstacles they encountered and 1983, I went to Hon. Susan Graber colleague, as the featured speaker. occupy the bench thrust aside, and ever grateful for their see the closing here in Oregon, at all levels. I would not pioneering efforts, their inspiration, and arguments in a Her hope of blazing a helpful trail has think, for example, of writing a brief on their shining example. trial before Judge been amply realized. the subject of personal jurisdiction without Panner. Barrie pulling out Judge Susan Graber’s opinion ank you one and all. Herbold, of the in State ex rel. Circus Circus Reno, Inc. v. Barrie Herbold newly formed Reflections of a firms. Nonetheless, the greater focus on Balancing Family and colleges out there – many of them development of management and leadership probably better for your child than the Corporate Counsel skills in the corporate world as compared Career “Ivies” – and a lot easier to get into. By Eva Kripalani, to law firms generally seems to promote an By Judge Ellen F. 5) Take vacations with your kids when Knowledge appreciation of a greater array of talents and Rosenblum. they are between the ages of seven Learning Corp. skills. Management behavior that results and thirteen. Before that, it’s fun, but in excessive turnover of staff seems to be “It’s really exhausting. Aer that, you may discover I knew from a more quickly addressed and there is much important for that their idea of a good time – and very early age that more emphasis placed on teamwork and moms to work – to yours – diverge substantially. ey may I wanted to be a development of others versus individual be role models for not even want to go with you! lawyer. I’m not contribution. Of course, the fact that an in- their daughters 6) Learn when to say “No.” Choose very sure what most house lawyer’s contribution is not measured – to show that it’s carefully what you have time for and influenced my primarily on the basis of billable hours possible to spend want to get involved in. e position decision, watching provides greater opportunity for rewarding a time with your on the local nonprofit board may all those Perry broader range of talents and skills. family and have a need to wait until you’ve had the Mason episodes or listening to my mother’s career. It makes chance to fully assess whether you’re constant refrain that my smart mouth Judging from recent articles on the subject, me realize I can do it – not all my friends and need to have the last word in every it does not appear that big law firms have feel that way.” My daughter, Cate, age 22. “Learn when to say argument were indicative of my potential. been terribly successful in addressing the In any case, I think it was a good choice. issues that have resulted in few women ‘No.’ ” reaching the top and staying there. at is One of the earliest documents designed prepared to make the commitment As I think about the impact of my gender unfortunate, but I am quite sure it is not for to help lawyers transition to parenthood, – which, in turn, requires analyzing upon my career, I have not found it to be a while maintaining their careers, was given whether the time you’ll invest is hindrance, but believe it has impacted my to me by the then first lady of Arkansas, “Work-life balance worth the time it will take away from choices. Fortunately, I graduated from law who happened to be the first chair of the your family, your personal well-being school at a time when there were many is not just a women’s ABA’s Commission on Women in the and other activities that might benefit women with successful legal careers and Profession in the late 80’s. Upon being even more from your involvement. good opportunities were available to me. I issue...” introduced to her at one of our annual Just as your reputation as a lawyer wanted to be in a law firm and joined the lack of good intentions and considerable meetings, she asked me to be sure to give will be sealed early in your career, Stoel Rives firm as an associate in 1987. effort. Although it is not just a work-life a copy of this publication on developing so will your reputation as a potential balance issue, that is undoubtedly a critical family-friendly leave policies in law firms community leader. My early experiences at Stoel Rives factor. Work-life balance is not just a women’s to her friend and former classmate, who 7) Find a mentor in your office who will demonstrated to me that I could compete issue, but it seems to be harder for women to had recently become a mother while help keep you on the right track and successfully with my male colleagues. I didn’t achieve balance because of traditional family serving on the Oregon Supreme Court. is someone to whom you wouldn’t think much about gender issues, even though roles. As long as law firms continue to focus It is now a virtual “given” that a large otherwise have access. I was working in the corporate and securities primarily on the billable hour as the measure law firm have some sort of policy that 8) More women lawyers are choosing group, a fairly male dominated area of the of a lawyer’s worth, this will continue to be a allows mothers (and fathers, too, in the to stay home longer to raise children law. I credit Stoel Rives with creating an difficult problem to address. than, it seems to me, was the case environment that promoted opportunities “...lawyers I meet still when I was raising my children in for women and was intolerant of lawyers and I am not sure I was aware of the term the 80’s and 90’s. Now that some of clients who would have it otherwise. work-life balance when I decided to make whisper...” them are attempting to re-enter the the switch from a law firm to in-house more enlightened firms) to take time off profession, there is a real opportunity counsel, but it was clearly part of my “I credit Stoel Rives to parent a new baby. But, surprisingly, for law firms to demonstrate that motivation. I know that I have not yet lawyers I meet still whisper that they’re we have learned something from with creating an achieved that elusive balance, but I am sometimes unsure about asking about experiences with different parenting closer to it and feel as though I exert more policies such as these, for fear of not models among lawyers. Welcome environment that control over my life these days, making being taken seriously as a candidate for these lawyers back. ey are, by more conscious choices about how I want promoted opportunities the job. Over the years since the ABA’s nature, dedicated and committed to spend my time. first publication, it has become apparent to whatever they choose to devote for women...” that the issue of “time off” is only the themselves to. Although I appreciate the ability to achieve tip of the iceberg among a multitude of 9) If a lawyer doesn’t currently have a greater balance, I appreciate as much, if not During my 10 years at Stoel Rives, I had issues affecting our ability to navigate the family to raise, or chooses not to, but more, the exposure this role gives me to tremendous opportunities to work with “work/family continuum.” Books have has other special interests to pursue, experiences and opportunities outside the very talented people and did challenging treat that lawyer with a similar level traditional lawyer role. While I sometimes and interesting work. I will always be of concern and support to that shown miss delving deeply into a complex issue “...‘time off’ is only grateful for my experience there and to those in the childrearing mode. We and becoming truly “expert” in it, I actually the wonderful relationships I formed. the tip of the iceberg want these lawyers as allies in raising our find I enjoy my “generalist” role here But while I loved many things about my families – and, it is a matter of fairness. much more. I find that my experience and work, I found myself growing increasingly among a multitude of 10) We may want to look to other training as a lawyer has many valuable disenchanted with life in a big law firm. professions, such as the accountants, for applications in the business that I had issues affecting our ere were a number of contributing ways to improve the law firm culture not anticipated. Interestingly, I have also factors, but, fundamentally, what I had to to make it more conducive to the found that management and leadership of ability to navigate do to feel successful was at odds with how work/family continuum that is desired people – the thing I least liked when I first I wanted to live my life and did not bring the ‘work/family entered the corporate environment – is now out the best in me. I was also saddened to something I very much enjoy and where I see many of my colleagues, particularly continuum.’ ” “...they have most want to improve my skills. other women, leave - oen to pursue a been written on the subject and careers path that would involve a less demanding discovered it benefits I am fortunate to have had opportunities have been made studying it. While I do work schedule and give them more time to work in a great law firm as well as a not profess to be one of those experts, here both the people and with their families. great corporate legal department. ere are are 10 suggestions I’ve picked up over the excellent opportunities for women lawyers years on how to approach balanced life as the ‘bottom line.’ ” I le Stoel Rives in 1997 to become General a lawyer: in law firms, corporations and other work by men and women lawyers today. It Counsel of KinderCare Learning Centers, 1) Pick a life partner who is at least as environments. Legal training equips you with appears that some of them are ahead Inc. It was a difficult decision and, in nurturing as you are – preferably skills such as problem solving and effective of us in understanding and making hindsight, one that was made in haste more so. written and verbal communication that can changes to make it easier for members and without sufficient consideration of 2) Find a work environment that is translate into success in any career. I do hope of their profession to stay connected alternatives. Fortunately, it turned out to be supportive of community and family – and for those who have le, to re- another good decision, although that was not involvement. Don’t be afraid to enter with ease. Not surprisingly, they entirely clear at first. I approached my work “...excellent opportunities ask questions that will give you the have discovered it benefits both the in the same way that had been successful for answers to these questions because if people and the “bottom line.” Why me at Stoel Rives, which did not translate well for women lawyers in they are hesitant to answer them, you would lawyers be satisfied allowing to the new environment. As a result, there probably don’t want to work there. law firms, corporations other professions to forge ahead of us were a number of hard lessons to be learned 3) For young parents, don’t stress on something this important? along the way. I am still learning, but the and other work yourself out over-programming your lessons are getting less painful. kids. Keep in mind that kids’ needs environments...” are really fairly simple. I do not mean to imply that the corporate that law firms continue to focus on ways to 4) For somewhat more mature parents, environment is necessarily a more warm retain more women over the long term as I avoid the “college frenzy.” e near and friendly place for women. Corporate believe doing so will enhance the quality of obsession with getting our children cultures differ widely and, aer all, “glass the environment for everyone. into the best colleges seems to swallow ceiling” was a term used in reference to families once their children reach high corporations before it was applied to law school age. ere are a lot of great MBA 100th Anniversary Women Advancing the Bar Community Gi Fund Surpasses $238,000!
Congratulations to our MBA 100th Anniversary Community Gi Fundraising Committee, led by past MBA president, Mike Greene. e purpose of the fund is to 2 increase civics education and participation and it will be administered by the newly formed Multnomah Bar Foundation. e MBA kicked off the fundraising campaign by committing $50,000 to the fund. Listed 1 below are those who have already made their generous donations or pledges. More names will be added throughout the year. If you want to add your name to the list, please contact Guy Walden at the MBA at [email protected] or 503.222.3275.
3 Founder Donors ($20,000) Miller Nash Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt Bullivant Houser Bailey
Centennial Partner Donor ($10,000) Davis Wright Tremaine
12 Centennial Benefactor Donors ($5,000) Ater Wynne Ball Janik Barran Liebman Cosgrave Vergeer Kester 4 Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue Harrang Long Gary Rudnick Lane Powell Markowitz, Herbold, Glade & Mehlhaf Perkins Coie Preston Gates & Ellis Stahancyk, Kent, Johnson & Hook Stoel Rives Tonkon Torp 10 Williams Love O’Leary Craine & Powers 11 Centennial Patron Donors ($2,500) 5 Michael H. Bloom Foster Pepper Tooze Garvey Schubert Barer Greene & Markley Kennedy, Watts, Arellano & Ricks Young Lawyers Section Sussman Shank Yates Matthews & Associates
Centennial Supporter Donors ($1,000) Marc Blackman Monte Bricker 9 7 David A. Ernst John R. Faust Jr. 6 George H. Fraser 8 Walter H. Grebe Michael A. Greene 1. Manche Langley, admitted to the Oregon State Bar 1909, the 13th woman admitted to practice in Oregon; President of the Women Leonard Girard Lawyers’ Association of Oregon, 1926; earned an LLB from Northwestern School of Law, 1927; Multnomah County Deputy Michael Haglund District Attorney, 1933-35. Douglass M. Hamilton 2. Hon. Betty Roberts, Oregon House of Representatives and Senate, 1965-77; First woman appointed to Oregon Court of Appeals, Susan M. Hammer 1977; first woman appointed to Oregon Supreme Court, 1982 pictured withHon. Jean Lewis. Edwin A. Harnden 3. Dorothy McCullough Lee, formed first all-woman law firm with Gladys M. Everett, 1931; Portland’s first woman mayor, 1949; Don H. Marmaduke Served in Oregon House of Representatives and Senate, 1931-41; first chair of the Oregon Crime Commission, 1931-35; first Jeffrey S. Matthews woman Portland City Council member and commissioner of public utilities, 1948. “In politics and in professional life, a woman Albert Menashe should not look for special favors because of her sex. She should not only not seek deferment on the part of men, she should not Lynn Nagasako permit it…[P]articipation of women in politics, which is so plainly a crying need today, should be taken for granted and women Robert J. Neuberger should prepare themselves to do their part in proportion to their intelligence, education and experience.” In a 1948 interview for Robert D. Newell Independent Woman magazine. Katherine O’Neil 4. Lynn Nagasako, MBA President 1995-96. Simeon D. Rapoport 5. Sylvia Stevens, MBA President 2004-05. Steven V. Rizzo 6. Jacque Jurkins, Librarian since 1964, Multnomah Law Library. Michael Simon 7. Helen Althaus, a founding member of the Queen’s Bench, 1948; first woman judicial law clerk, 1947-49; Deputy City Attorney, Judy Danelle Snyder Portland, 1949-53; associate at King, Miller, Anderson, Nash and Yerke, 1953-70; joined Gladys Everett and Virginia Renwick in Ruth Spetter an all-woman law firm, 1970. Sylvia E. Stevens 8. Betty Crofoot, Administrator for the Oregon Supreme Court in 1950s and long time Queen’s Bench member. omas H. Tongue 9. Judy Snyder, MBA President 1999-2000. Mark R. Wada 10. Cynthia Barrett, MBA President 1991-92. 11. Susan Hammer, First woman MBA President, 1987-88 and Ruth Beyer, MBA President 2000-01 at the MBA 100th Centennial Donors ($500) Anniversary Celebration. Mona Buckley 12. Ruth Spetter, First woman YLS President, 1983-84 and second woman MBA President, 1990-91. Nancie K. Potter Noreen Saltveit McGraw ank you to the Queen’s Bench Commemorative 50th Anniversary 1998 Calendar for much of the above information.