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Fight for Women’s Suffrage

Hasby Caitlin Bumar, Rich Esq. and Diverse Historywomen in the church, the workplace, Therightof and at the ballot box. n a March 1776 letter to her citizensofthe The demand for suffrage was husband, John, UnitedStates the most controversial, and indeed Iwrote: “In the new code of laws the only resolution not to pass which I suppose it will be necessary tovoteshall unanimously. In the following years, for you to make, I desire you would notbedenied however, the fight for voting rights remember the ladies and be more would become the hallmark of the generous and favorable to them orabridged women’s rights movement in America. than your ancestors. Do not put such bytheUnited In the years between the passage unlimited power into the hands of the Statesorby of the Declaration of Sentiments husbands. Remember, all men would anyStateon and the passage of the Nineteenth be tyrants if they could. If particular Amendment, American history is care and attention is not paid to the accountofsex. replete with brave and subversive ladies, we are determined to foment a 19th Amendment to the women whose crucial activism paved rebellion, and will not hold ourselves United States Constitution, the way for women’s suffrage. ratified August 18, 1920 bound by any laws in which we have One influential suffragette no voice or representation.” fight for suffrage is a rich tapestry working at this time in the midwest The future first lady’s prescient woven through with women of all was Ida B. Wells, co-founder of words foretold a centuries-long backgrounds and viewpoints uniting the Alpha Suffrage Club. Born into struggle by American women for equal for the common cause of women’s slavery in 1862, Wells was freed during treatment under the law, including the rights. the Civil War and was subsequently crucial right to make their voices heard Although women from the orphaned at sixteen years old when through the most sacred of American inception of our country have fought yellow fever took both of her parents. political traditions, the vote. Almost for their equality, the modern women’s She took a teaching job to support 150 years after Abigail Adams’ famous suffrage movement is traditionally her remaining family, and by the late letter was penned, on August 18, considered to begin with the Seneca continued on page 2 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment Falls Convention. Held in Seneca Falls, to the United States Constitution N.Y., in July 1848, the event hosted Editor’s note: As we come to the end was ratified, granting suffrage to all approximately three hundred women of the centennial year marking the American women. (and a few men) for two days of success of the movement for women’s While American school curricula revolutionary speeches and discussion. suffrage, we devote this issue to the necessarily focus on the major players The convention ended with the struggles and triumphs of women— in the women’s movement, such passage of the Declaration of past and present—on the national as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Sentiments, a manifesto listing eleven and local levels. Cady Stanton, the history of the resolutions demanding equality for

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Fight for Women’s Suffragecontinued from page 1 Has Rich and Diverse History

Ida B. Wells, in a photograph by Mary Garrity, circa 1893. 1800s she was a co-owner of and an investigative journalist for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight Mrs. Belle Squire (left), music teacher, lecturer, and a leader in the women’s suffrage movement, said newspaper. In 1913, Wells she would rather have a vote than a husband. and her white colleague, Ida Wells protested and officers. The passage of this Belle Squire, founded the remained defiant, walking law, owing in no small part Alpha Suffrage Club, the arm in arm with Belle to the Alpha Suffrage Club, first American organization Squire and Virginia Brooks, reverberated throughout the for the purpose of advocating another prominent Chicago country, renewing support for voting rights for women suffragette, in the main for the universal suffrage of all races. Illinois delegation. movement and renewing the The Alpha Suffrage Through direct action fervor of suffragettes across Club was particularly and activism in Chicago, America. groundbreaking, as it the Alpha Suffrage Club was Alpha Suffrage Club provided representation for able to enact state policies co-founder Belle Squire black women who had been which would reverberate was an interesting and intentionally excluded from throughout the United influential feminist in her larger national organizations States. Noting the efforts own right. In 1910, Squire, such as the prominent of various groups to pass a Chicago music teacher, Margaret Jessie Chung, while National American Woman suffrage laws which were refused to pay her property studying medicine at the Suffrage Association exclusive to white women, taxes on the grounds that University of Southern (NAWSA). The conflict the Alpha Suffrage Club she was not permitted to California in 1914. with NAWSA was brought doubled down on its effort vote. In that same year, she wages, dignity and position into stark relief at the to extend suffrage to all inspired over 5,000 Illinois are raised; with a husband Woman Suffrage Procession, women, culminating in the women to do the same they may be lowered.” held in Washington, D.C., passage of the Illinois Equal under the banner of the No Despite her publicly avowed in March 1913. Prior to Suffrage Act (IESA). The Vote, No Tax League. refusal to marry, Squire the march, NAWSA IESA was signed into Illinois Squire famously demanded to be referred to requested that black law on June 16, 1913, proclaimed in the Chicago as “Mrs. Squire” for the sake suffragettes march at the securing all Illinois women Tribune in 1913 that she of equality. back of the procession for the right to vote for would rather have a vote Meanwhile, on the fear of offending southern president of the United than a husband, on the basis west coast in California, suffragettes and supporters. States as well as local that “with a vote a woman’s Dr. Margaret Jessie Chung

bar 3 DECEMBER 2020 side • Back on the east coast, Amendment and to become 26 million American attorney and activist Crystal a founding member of the women for the first time Eastman was organizing as American Civil Liberties in the history of our nation. well. In 1907, Eastman Union. As we celebrate the 100th graduated second in her These are just a few anniversary of the passage of class from the New York stories of the brave women the Nineteenth Amendment, University School of Law. of the suffragette movement we should look back and A pioneering attorney who risked their security, celebrate all of the women in the field of workers’ livelihoods, and freedom for who took a radical stance compensation and a the advancement of women’s in favor of a right that may prominent socialist activist, rights. Their lives weave now seem mundane. Eastman quickly found together to tell the story of To honor the legacy an affinity for the women’s innumerable acts—small of these brave women, we suffrage movement. and large—undertaken should not be complacent in graduated Together with a few by innumerable American ensuring that gender equity second in her class from the like-minded women, she women that led to the evolves and persists. And School of founded the Congressional societal shift in favor of most importantly, men Law in 1907. In 1913, she and Union for Woman Suffrage women’s suffrage. and women alike, we must a few like-minded women in 1913, later becoming the When the Nineteenth never take for granted our founded the Congressional National Woman’s Party. Amendment was ratified most fundamental right Union for Woman Suffrage. Led in part by Eastman, in 1920, it enfranchised of suffrage. I the Congressional Union worked tirelessly with the utilized relatively novel Woman’s Auxiliary of the methods of activism, Chinese American League including organized of Justice and the Chinese fundraising, mass Women’s Reform Club demonstrations, and daily in revolutionary efforts White House protests, to bolster support among with many members the Chinese-American suffering arrest and community for women’s imprisonment for “blocking suffrage. Born in 1889 to traffic.” Their relentless immigrant parents, Chung activism forced the federal went on to become the congress to place a federal “Helping You Control Your country’s first female suffrage amendment on the Health Insurance Costs Since 2002” Chinese-American physician floor in 1914 for the first As independent health insurance brokers, we are able to shop carriers and plans every year. Our job is to ensure in 1916. In addition to this time in many decades. you are getting the best price and coverage for you and incredible accomplishment, Later, the Union heavily your clients. Your goals are our #1 priority! Chung’s characteristically contributed to the pressure masculine style of dress and which led to passage and Health Insurance Plans We Offer: proclivity for traditionally ratification of the Nineteenth Small Group • Medicare Advantage masculine activities like Amendment in 1920. With Supplemental • Individual drinking, swearing, and this feat accomplished, For a Free Quote, Call or Email Today: gambling, provided Chung Eastman did not give up with a local notoriety which the push for women’s Bob (RJ): 724-312-3454 she was able to leverage into rights, instead going on Valerie: 724-312-2762 Email: [email protected] interest in and support for to co-author the as-yet https://www.facebook.com/rjswanninsurance/ women’s suffrage. unratified Equal Rights the bar the sidebar is published bimonthly as a service for EDITORIAL BOARD members of the Westmoreland Bar Association. Daniel J. Ackerman, Editor side Letters to the Editor should be sent c/o WBA, Pamela Ferguson, Esq., Emily Shaffer, Esq., 100 North Maple Avenue, Greensburg, PA 15601-2506, fax 724-834-6855, Caitlin Bumar, Esq., Joyce Novotny-Prettiman, Esq., or e-mail [email protected]. the sidebar welcomes submissions from Susan C. Zellner, Associate Editors members or non-members. Please submit to the Articles Editor, c/o WBA. David J. Millstein, Esq., Naples Bureau Chief Back issues from 2000 to the present and a comprehensive, searchable index are available online at www.westbar.org/thesidebar. Alahna O’Brien, Managing Editor 4 bar • side DECEMBER 2020 Remembering Justice Ruth

Baderby Joyce Novotny-Prettiman, Ginsburg—An Esq. a seat on the Harvard — Inspiration the first woman to do so. A legendary n a time when we all need story often told is that the dean of the some inspiration, the passing at the time when Iof Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg she was a student asked the female has reminded us that one person students at a dinner party how they can indeed make a difference. Justice justified taking a seat that would Ginsburg not only have gone to a man.1 leaves a legal legacy She finished her last year of law grounded in her fight school in New York at Columbia after against inequality, moving there with her husband, Marty, she also leaves many and their young daughter, after he inspired by her grit graduated from Harvard Law in and determination. the class ahead of her. In 1959, It was the interesting she graduated from Columbia Law mix of her intelligence School tied for first in her class and and her personality was recommended for a clerkship that led to her iconic with Justice Felix Joyce popularity as “The Frankfurter by a Harvard Law School Novotny-Prettiman Notorious RBG.” professor, but was not interviewed. Justice Ginsburg was 87 years of She did interview with twelve New age when she passed on , York law firms, one of which she had 2020, having served 27 years on the clerked for while in law school, but she Ruth Bader Ginsburg, photographed in Unites States Supreme Court. The received no job offer.2 1977 by Lynn Gilbert. second female appointed to the On the recommendation of a She also hid her second pregnancy United States Supreme Court, she mentor, she got a clerkship in New there until her contract was renewed.4 was nominated in 1993 by President York before she went to work at At 39, Ginsburg ultimately became Clinton and confirmed by a Senate ’s International one of the two founding members of vote of 96-3. She had been appointed Procedure Project. She then joined the the Women’s Rights Project at the by President Carter in 1980 to serve faculty at in 1963, American Civil Liberties Union in the on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the where she discovered her salary was early 1970s. District of Columbia Circuit. lower than that of her male colleagues.3 Her first Supreme Court brief was A quick look back at her early legal written in 1971 in the case of Reed v. life focuses us on the legal landscape 1 Klein, Asher. “At Harvard Law, RBG Reed, which was a case where a mother, that Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg found Displayed the Steel She'd Be Famous For.” Sally Reed, fought to be the executor NBC Boston, 19 Sept. 2020, Web. herself in when entering Harvard Law of her son’s estate instead of her 2 Pullman, Sandra, et al. “Tribute: The School. In 1956, she was one of nine Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and WRP Staff.” ex-husband in a state where men were women in a class with 552 men. In this American Civil Liberties Union, 2020, Web. preferred for that duty. The Supreme competitive environment, she earned 3 Ibid. Court agreed with her argument and struck down that state law which discriminated based on gender.5 As far as arguments before the United States Supreme Court, Ginsburg won five of the six cases LawwSpeak that she argued. “People ask me sometimes, when — when do you think it will it be enough? When will there be enough women on the court? And my answer is when 4 Totenberg, Nina. “Justice Ruth Bader there are nine.” Ginsburg, Champion Of , Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a speech at in 2015 Dies At 87.” NPR, 18 Sept. 2020, Web. 5 Ibid. bar 5 DECEMBER 2020 side • In 1973, Ginsburg argued the case based on the logic that a single of Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. woman faced a harder time finding 677 (1973), on behalf of the ACLU employment than a single man because as amicus curie. In this case, a female many widowers generally continue lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, their job while many widows found Sharron Frontiero, applied for a themselves entering the job market, dependent’s allowance for her husband. some for the first time. The Court While federal law provided that wives ruled that those differences gave of military members automatically justification for different treatment became dependents, husbands were under the Florida law.7 not considered dependents unless they Knowing that she would need to obtained over half of their support persuade male judges, Ginsburg many from their wives. The argument was times chose male plaintiffs to make that this practice unconstitutionally her point to the Court. In the case of discriminated against women. The Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld, 420 U.S. 636 Supreme Court ruled 8–1 in favor (1975), her male plaintiff, whose wife of Frontiero that the practice was died in childbirth, sought survivor’s unconstitutional, but the standard of benefits from the Social Security review was something that a majority Administration. His wife had been could not agree upon.6 the primary breadwinner in the family. In 1974, in the case of Kahn v. He sought benefits for both himself Shevin, 416 U.S. 351 (1974), she lost and his newborn son, but only his her attempt to strike down a Florida Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2016. son was entitled to death benefits. law that granted a $500 property tax widowers. A widower, Mel Kahn, The Social Security Administration did exemption for widows but not for applied for the property tax exemption, continued on page 14 was denied, and sued. The Court held 6 “Frontiero v. Richardson.” Oyez, Accessed in a 6–3 decision that the property tax 7 “Kahn v. Shevin.” Oyez, Accessed 27 Nov. 27 Nov. 2020, Web. exemption to widows was allowable 2020, Web. 6 bar • side DECEMBER 2020 The Right Choice at

bythe Pamela Ferguson, Right Esq. Timeworkforce in nontraditional roles, yet constrained them through pervasive n the eve of her silver jubilee, gender disparities in pay, advancement, U.S. Senior District Judge and sexual discrimination. Oand Westmoreland County As one of only three women native Donetta Ambrose acknowledged entering Duquesne University School that it might be time to leave the of Law in 1967, Judge Ambrose was profession to which she has dedicated acutely aware that she was starting her life: a decision she does not make out at a disadvantage. Unlike lightly. Despite retiring ten years ago many of her male classmates, who, as from her position as Chief Judge for second- and third-generation lawyers, the Western District, Judge Ambrose grew up hearing the vernacular and The Hon. Donetta W. Ambrose has remained an committing, at an early age, to pursue in which they had to come up with active and vital force the family occupation, Judge Ambrose the names of famous people from on the federal bench. was a first-generation lawyer unfamiliar 26 random pairs of letters written Assigned the case with the practice of law. While the Law on a yellow legal pad. “Because I against accused had been neither a life-long passion was innately capable of not paying “Tree of Life” shooter nor a profession she had been expected attention to the professor’s lecture Robert Bowers, she to pursue, she came to love it. She more than was Judge Ambrose, I recently decided credits hard work and the support generally prevailed in our games,” the applicability and camaraderie of her classmates, he said, admitting that this may of the Hate Crimes particularly within her small have also been the reason why she Prevention Act and graduated second in their class and Pamela Ferguson the Church Arson he graduated tenth. Prevention Act, and upheld the It is tough for women to Despite graduating cum laude, constitutionality of the Federal do everything——take care Judge Ambrose, like the other two Death Penalty Act, an issue she of the household, their women in her law school class, received faced early in her career. no interviews from law firms. Resisting Thirty-nine years ago, as a young children, their parents. the cultural changes occurring as a Westmoreland County assistant Is it impossible? No. result of the Civil Rights Movement, district attorney, Judge Ambrose Women just don’t have the male-dominated legal profession and her co-counsel, Timothy Geary, continued to perpetuate the false prosecuted the “kill for thrill” the same advantages narrative of the 1950s that hiring a murderers, John Lesko and Michael men have. It all depends woman, especially one of child-bearing Travaglia. Despite securing death age, was a waste of time and money. As sentences against both defendants, on the choices you a result of this mindset, extraordinary neither was executed: Michael Travaglia make as a woman. women like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and died in prison in September 2017, Sandra Day O’Connor, who through and Lesko remains one of 134 men on study group, for her success in law their appointments to the U.S. Supreme Pennsylvania death row whose fates school. David Millstein, one of our Court paved the way for women, like are in the hands of state lawmakers Westmoreland County colleagues, was Judge Ambrose, to aspire to judgeships, investigating the effectiveness of among her close circle of friends then, regularly faced career obstacles capital punishment. and remains one of Judge Ambrose’s non-existent to their male peers. Never one to shy away from difficult dearest friends today. “Law firms in the late 1960s weren’t decisions, Judge Ambrose’s intestinal Dispelling the notion that law interviewing women, and of the three fortitude was born, in part, from school is all hard work and no play, women in my law school class, I was the challenges she faced as a woman David fondly recalls how he and the only one to get a paid position,” beginning her career in the late Judge Ambrose often sat next to Judge Ambrose lamented. She credits 1960s—a time of cultural change each other in class and played “a her law school professor, Duquesne that empowered women to enter the fabulously interesting word game” University School of Law Dean Louis bar 7 DECEMBER 2020 side • Manderino, and her campus job for all notions of gender inequality until, desperately hoping to stay out of making it possible. As part of her full quite by accident, she noticed that her his courtroom at all costs, her male scholarship to Duquesne Law School, salary was significantly less than her colleagues often asked her to attend Judge Ambrose worked as a dorm male colleagues. Refusing to be treated to matters in their stead. “house mother.” While it limited her unequally, she demanded equal pay. With her confidence and socializing, it paid for her education It took some time and “loud yelling,” intelligence garnering interest from and gave her the connections she but she finally got it. those around her, and her reputation needed to get a job. Judge Ambrose recalls, though, as a top-notch prosecutor solidified, Upon leaving his deanship at least one circumstance in which Judge Ambrose successfully ran in and accepting an appointment her gender worked to her advantage. 1983 for the Westmoreland County as a charter member of the newly Long feared for his gruff courtroom Court of Common Pleas, becoming formed Commonwealth Court, demeanor, the late Judge Earl Keim the first woman on the bench. Her Louis Manderino asked her to be his always treated her in a very kind, gender never played a role in how . This was a wonderful courteous, and respectful manner. she was treated by the members of opportunity not just because it was Wise to her favored treatment and continued on page 8 a paid position, but because it was an opportunity for her to work with a beloved professor and a man she would later describe in a 2005 remembrance in the AlumNews as “a legend in his own time.” One year later, when Judge Manderino was elected to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, he asked her to clerk for him there as well. She credits Judge Manderino as being one of the most significant reasons for her success and a major influence on her career. In May of 1972, Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp recruited her for a position in the Attorney General’s Office. She accepted the appointment and started in September of that year as the only female prosecuting attorney in the office. Two years later, she and her husband Ray, expecting their first and only child, heeded the advice of her former boss and mentor, Justice Manderino, and returned to Westmoreland County hoping for a position in the District Attorney’s Office. Lacking the necessary connections, success in her pursuit was not immediately forthcoming; but, because of her tenacity and persistence, DA Al Nichols finally hired her as a part-time assistant district attorney in 1977. “I think I just wore him down,” she said. During the five years Judge Ambrose served as an ADA, she prosecuted many high-profile cases, unafraid of the challenges they posed. Respected by her peers, Judge Ambrose developed a camaraderie with her colleagues that appeared to dispel 8 bar • side DECEMBER 2020

Thecontinued from Right page 7 Choice at the Right Time the bench and bar, although she does recall, with a chuckle, that it caused quite a stir on her first day on the bench. With only mundane tasks to perform, she entered her courtroom surprised to find six reporters seated in her gallery. “I don’t know what they were expecting,” she laughs. “I guess they were curious to see what a woman would do on the bench!” In 1993, ten years after joining the Westmoreland County bench, Judge Judge Ambrose (third from right) and some of her fellow Clinton judicial appointees during Ambrose was appointed by President a whitewater rafting trip through the Grand Canyon in 2016. to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Commission for Women in the as she quotes former Steelers head Assuming the mantle from her Profession, an organization whose coach Chuck Noll, who said, “When predecessor, Judge Carol Los mission is to identify barriers that you’re talking about retiring, you’re Mansmann (who had been the first prevent women from full participation already retired.” woman on the court), as the only in the responsibilities and rewards of the These days, her priority and passion woman on the ten-person court, Judge profession. Despite the Commission’s is her nine-year-old grandson, Edward, Ambrose felt at home. In 2002, she efforts, change has been minimal. who lives nearby with her son and became the first female Chief Judge for In a 2010 article for the Duquesne daughter-in-law. Having more time to the Western District and served in that School of Law’s Juris Magazine, Judge spend with him may make the decision position until her in 2009 Ambrose stated: to completely walk away from the when she assumed senior judge status. There is still not an even playing profession she loves an easy one. When In the fifty years that Judge field. Granted, the climate for she does, it will be with no regrets and Ambrose pursued her passion for the women has changed to some degree. with the contentment and satisfaction law, broke many glass ceilings, and But, women still have to work very that she loved it all. “It’s been a great achieved many firsts for women, hard to get business ... It’s hard to professional career, through which little has changed for women in be where men are. Studies by the I’ve met some wonderful people,” she the profession. According to a 2018 ABA have shown that men are said, mentioning specifically her fellow report from the ABA Commission still at an economic advantage to female Clinton judicial appointees. on Women in the Profession, women women. Also, we have committees They have all remained close friends make up only 22.7% of partners and for gender equality. If it was equal, and regularly go whitewater rafting 19% of equity partners, despite being we wouldn’t need the committees. together. Their river choices, the 51.3% of those currently enrolled It is tough for women to do every- Colorado, Rogue, and Middle Fork in law school. The median pay for thing—take care of the household, of the Salmon, reflect the strength of full-time female lawyers is still not their children, their parents. Is it their character and are conquerable commensurate with their male peers. impossible? No. Women just don’t only by those who are not afraid to In 2020, women earned only 81 cents have the same advantages men face challenges head on. for every dollar earned by men, and have. It all depends on the choices With the strife and angst of 2020 for women of color, it’s worse.1 The you make as a woman.2 unabated, and the future of 2021 unforeseen, Judge Ambrose reflects reason continues to be the same old Judge Ambrose has made excellent on her friend, Ann Montgomery’s wish time-worn fear of motherhood. choices throughout both her life and “to be floating down the river.” White In 1993, determined to change career, choices that may be a guiding water or not, it sounds like the right the climate for women, she joined light for those who follow her. Her choice for a woman who, by dint the newly formed Pennsylvania final choice, whether to stay or walk of hard work, kindness, passion, and away, may already have been decided, intelligence, overcame a lot of obstacles 1 Pisarcik, Ian. “Women Outnumber Men in to make her own distinct and respected Law School Classrooms for Third Year in a Row, 2 Owens, Ashley. “Women on the Bench: Judge but Statistics Don't Tell the Whole Story.” Jurist, Donetta Ambrose.” Duquesne University School of place in both the profession of law and 5 Mar. 2019. Law, Juris Magazine, 16 Sept. 2010. the world at large. I bar 9 DECEMBER 2020 side • Women in the Legal Profession:

byNot Emily Shaffer, Yet Esq. Equal Risa L. Goluboff, first female Dean of the University of Virginia he year 2020 is historical School of Law, reflects on why this for many reasons, perhaps inequality continues. She notes Tthe most notable for the that while a single reason cannot election of the first female, first be pinpointed, the societal biases, Black, and first South Asian- both explicit and implicit, are American Vice President, Kamala partially to blame.3 These biases Harris. Harris, an American create a comfort level for male politician and attorney, is said to leaders to be less likely to socialize, have shattered the glass ceiling mentor, promote, and hire those over 200 years since the election of who don’t look like them, often the first American referred to as the Good Old Boys’ president and 100 Club mentality. Weak family leave years after women laws and policies are also prevalent were guaranteed in our profession, discouraging the right to vote by the 19th Amendment. a household with two breadwinners. And, let’s not forget Her position as Vice President-elect about the “bitch factor.” Kimberly Jade Norwood, of ensures female representation in the Washington University School of Law, explains that this White House for the next four years continued on page 10 and creates momentum to propel society 3 into a new era where women may be able Goluboff, Risa L. On Firsts, Feminism, and the Future of the Legal Profession. Women & Law 81-93. to achieve a more equal status in their Emily Shaffer professions. Without diminishing Harris’ momentous achievement of being elected by the American people to the second highest YOUR office in the country, we must take note that though female FINANCIAL attorneys have come a long way, there is still a long road PARTNER before equality is reached in the profession. The legal profession remains overwhelmingly male despite the entry FOR LIFE. 1 of women lawyers as early as 1869. According to the United With smart investments, wealth States Census Bureau, as of January 18, 2019, 150 years management, estate planning, retirement planning and more, since Arabella Mansfield was the first woman admitted our experts can help guide your to the Bar, only 38% of attorneys in the United States are fi nancial future with personal and female. Representation of women in the judiciary is just as attentive service. GREENSBURG low, with an average of 37% of the Circuit Court of Appeals 140 S. Main Street and 34% of the Federal District Court being female. Even WILKINS TWP. with Justice being added to the Supreme (Monroeville) Court, the highest court in the country remains only 33% 201 Penn Center Boulevard female. PITTSBURGH Beyond our disparate representation in advocacy and the United Steelworkers Building judiciary, the wage gap also persists. The Bureau of Labor 60 Boulevard of the Allies Statistics reported in 2018 that females are paid 80% of the average male attorney salary. Globally, male partners are paid 216 Franklin Street 27% more than female partners.2 Johnstown, PA 15901 1-800-837-2265•AmeriServ.com/Wealth-Management 1 Norwood, Kimberly Jade. Gender Bias as the Norm in the Legal Profession: Investment products are not FDIC insured, not guaranteed by the bank, It’s Still a [White] Man’s Game. 62 Wash.U.J.L. & Pol’y 025 (2020). may lose value, are not a bank deposit and are not insured by any federal government agency. 2 Commission on Women in the Profession. A Current Glance at Women in the Law. Am. Bar Ass’n, April 2019, www.americanbar.org/women. 10 bar • side DECEMBER 2020

Women in thecontinued Legal from page Profession: 9 factorNot presents Yet itself when Equal men get away with behavior that I am also quite certain that our WBA board supports would be considered unbecoming of a woman, like being equality for each of our members. I received a one-year too bossy, aggressive, or assertive.4 “seat at the table” at board meetings during my year as Norwood notes that female trial lawyers are met with chair of the Young Lawyers Committee. The men and gender bias from opposing counsel, judges, juries, and women of the board listened to my ideas and treated me courthouse staff that is not present for the male members as a true equal despite my age and gender. When I tried of the bar, which is discouraging to female lawyers. In a to sit off to the side at the first meeting, they insisted that non-exhaustive list, she mentions the following instances I join them at the table and invited me to participate in that only female attorneys face, including: “opposing counsel all of their scheduled meetings and events. filing ‘no crying’ motions to ensure Even though our bar leadership that the female lawyers will control supports equality, the burden to their emotions; assumptions that the promote equality does not begin female lawyer is not a lawyer at all; and end with them. Gender bias is being told to wear makeup, to dye so ingrained in society that it does their gray hair, to monitor the tone of not come with an easy fix. Norwood their voice, to wear heels but not too suggests that equality will not be high, to wear skirts but not too short, achieved without a total restructuring to wear pantyhose, and to smile.”5 of our legal institutions. Goluboff Norwood’s frank explanation agrees, suggesting that “change is of gender bias caused me to reflect a process, not a point in time, and on the way I have been treated as that we are all changemakers.”6 a young female attorney. While my Creating this change, she says, experiences as a woman in the legal will take a concerted effort to adapt field have been mostly positive, there workplace policies and laws to have, at times, been situations that made me hate my address harassment, discrimination, and persistent pay femininity, or, at the very least, think of it as an extreme gaps that reward some people over others. disadvantage. Along the lines of Norwood’s list, I have While restructuring our institutions is part of the bigger frequently been mistaken for a secretary or intern during picture, Goluboff’s notion that we can all make change my practice by my male counterparts. I have oftentimes suggests that there are small acts that each one of us can do felt out of place at meetings or in court where I am the to ensure our profession is accepting to every person who only female present, wondering if I was being polite passes the bar exam. Something as simple as giving a woman enough while opposing counsel spoke over me. It’s also a seat at the table and then letting her speak can begin to commonplace for me to be addressed by my first name, make change. Women should feel empowered to stand while it seems that opposing male counsel address one their ground and disregard the “bitch factor,” as Harris another by their surnames, which, in my opinion, is far demonstrated numerous times during this October’s Vice more respectful. Presidential debate, respectfully avoiding interruption by Despite these occurrences, there have been many times Vice President Mike Pence, stating, “Mr. Vice President, I’m where I have silently praised my male counterparts for their speaking.” Harris has set an example, being unapologetically behaviors. Once, a local attorney lightheartedly scolded bold in ensuring that her voice is heard. me for offering to perform some work pro bono, explaining The legal profession belongs to all of us—and has for that he felt I was shortchanging my abilities by not asking over 150 years. Let’s choose to celebrate this anniversary of for compensation for my valuable time. I also received women’s rights by individually doing what we can to ensure non-patronizing practice advice from male members of the dignity and equality not just for our clients but for our WBA when I reached out with questions as I was entering colleagues as well. Let’s empower women to claim their family law practice. These attorneys were, at times, opposing seat beyond the bar, and as Harris said, to “dream with counsel, just looking to share their wealth of knowledge with ambition, lead with conviction, and see yourself in a way a younger counterpart. that others might not see you, simply because they’ve never seen it before.” Simply put, start listening to female attorneys because we are speaking. I 4 Norwood. 035. 5 Norwood. 034. 6 Goluboff. 95. bar 11 DECEMBER 2020 side •

Westmoreland Revisited Westmoreland Women on theby Daniel Frontier J. Ackerman

he accounts related below come from George Dallas TAlbert’s 1882 tome bearing the fulsome title, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. They digress from the book’s chauvinistic subtitle in a chapter dealing with “Forays and Adventures.” There, Albert, in the characteristic language of his time, pays tribute to five women: Peggy Shaw, Nancy Wilson Jack, Peggy Oliver, the colorfully named Experience Bozarth, and Massy Harbison. Sam Wasilak, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Written a century after the events, the Peggy Shaw was fatally wounded by a gunshot in July 1782 when Hanna’s Town was origin of the stories attacked by Seneca warriors and Canadian rangers. Nancy Wilson Jack supervised and may be historically worked to move the public records from the courthouse to the stockade when the attack obscure and even appeared imminent. somewhat legendary, for supervising and carrying out the Bozarth, he presents to us a woman but nonetheless they work of transferring the public records who is a lioness, ferociously fighting Daniel J. Ackerman are factual enough to from the courthouse to the stockade for her life. constitute an inspiring tribute to all when the attack appeared imminent. It occurred in the spring of 1779, women who undertook the hazards, A heroine of note, Peggy Oliver was three years before the attack on and sometimes the horrors, that a young intrepid woman who carried Hanna’s Town. Mrs. Bozarth, her existed on the 18th century frontier. out the task of being a circuit-riding husband, and children resided on Such travails punctuated lives of messenger during the Revolution. Dunkard Creek in a section of the backbreaking drudgery, isolation, Albert describes her as: county which two years later would and the fear of illnesses and injuries [A] young and beautiful woman, become incorporated into the newly which defied treatment. mounted upon a favorite horse day created Washington County. With war Among them, Peggy Shaw remains after day during the most distressful tensions running high, the Bozarths the most familiar figure with those time in the middle of the war, took two or three neighboring families having an interest in our local history, riding at a gallop between the into their home. Several men were for she, as a teenager, was fatally block-houses and cabins which charged with patrolling the adjacent wounded by a gunshot in July 1782 reached from up in Hempfield to forest while two men, the women, and when Hanna’s Town was attacked by Markles, at the mouth of the children remained at the homestead. Seneca warriors and Canadian rangers. Sewickley. She appeared to lead a The children, who had been playing Her death, which came after two weeks charmed life, for it is said that she outside, ran panic-stricken into the of suffering, was the only fatality of an ventured to convey news and carry house screaming that Indians (who encounter which was one of the last of instructions on occasions when no were wartime allies of the British) the Revolution. Also at Hanna’s Town, other could be found to do so. were coming. Albert then goes Nancy Wilson Jack, the wife of the on to relate: These three are examples of courage, sheriff, Mathew Jack, was recognized but in Albert’s sketch of Experience continued on page 12 12 bar • side DECEMBER 2020

Westmorelandcontinued from page 11 Women on the Frontier One of the men went to the door. bowels out. His yells of pain degree of tranquility to the inhabitants He was shot in the breast and fell brought others of the savages from along the eastern seaboard, but that backward. The Indian jumped the murder of the children to his was not the case on the western over the prostrate man and rescue. When the first one of these frontier. The native tribes who had grappled the other. The white thrust his head inside the door it been allies of the British during the man with great strength threw the was cleft in two by the axe, when war were not represented in Paris Indian upon a bed and held him the body was pulled out by his where the peace treaty was negotiated, while he called for a knife. All the comrades. Mrs. Bozarth then, and accordingly felt betrayed by the rest of the women were screaming with the help of the white man terms agreed to by their former ally. As and in an anguish of fright. who had first been shot, and who former colonists pushed west in search had now somewhat recovered, shut of new land, some tribes, such as the Mrs. Bozarth, not finding a knife, the door upon them and fastened Seneca, who had aligned themselves seized an axe, and with a dash of it it. The living thus kept the house with the Colonies during the war, sank it into the Indian’s brain. At garrisoned for several days, with agreed to cede some land in exchange that instance another savage who the bodies of the dead white and for a monetary consideration, which had entered the door shot the white Indian in it. During this time the in hindsight was rather sparse. The man dead who was tussling with Indians besieged it. They were majority of the tribes, however, would and still holding the Indian on the finally relieved by a party sent out have none of it, and returned to their bed. The brave woman turned for that purpose. warring ways. upon this Indian and attacked him A confederation of these tribes with the axe. She gave him several The peace treaty which followed delivered to the new United States its ugly gashes, one of which let his the War for Independence brought a most devastating defeat in what would be known as the Indian Wars, when they nearly annihilated a force of about 1,000 men under the leadership of General Arthur St. Clair at the Battle of the Wabash in November 1791. As a result, settlers in western Pennsylvania braced themselves for the coming impact, as the tribal confederation, buoyed by the victory, began to press its advantage. The following spring, the ordeal of a young mother, Massy Harbison, would begin. In 1882, Albert wrote that her sufferings were “so well known that they will not bear repetition”— a disclaimer that has not survived the test of time. In May 1792, Massy resided within sight of a Westmoreland County blockhouse “between Pittsburgh and Puckety.” The reference to the latter is likely a reference to Puckety Creek, which would place her home in the vicinity of the Allegheny River in Detail of a 1775 map showing the forts, towns, rivers, and ridges of western Pennsylvania. the northernmost part of the county. The legend reads: “A Map of Pennsylvania exhibiting not only the Improved Parts of that Albert notes that his rendition of the Province, but also its Extensive Frontiers Laid down From Actual Surveys, and Chiefly events do not come from Massey’s From the late Map of W. Scull Published in 1770; And Humbly Inscribed to the Honourable own words, but those substantially set Thomas Penn and Richard Penn Esquires true and absolute Proprietaries & Governors of forth in a narrative given by her in a the Province of Pennsylvania and the Territories thereunto belonging.” bar 13 DECEMBER 2020 side • deposition taken before John Wilkins, her own life by creating a pretext that Esq., and then published in order to she hoped would cause her captors to arouse those in the area to shore up kill her—disobeying their commands. their defenses. To that end, she refused to carry a The public, once made aware of parcel thrust upon her, but her captors’ her story, was shocked and revolted by response was simply to beat her with what transpired on that day in May the handles of their tomahawks. and the days that followed. It began at She was left with a choice between the family residence, more than likely complete submission or an attempt a rude cabin. No reference is made to to escape. Massy’s husband or his whereabouts. On the third morning of their We learn she was at home with a abduction, while those guarding her newborn baby and her two little dozed, she got up, and carrying the boys when the door was broken child, started into the woods. Once open and a party of Indians entered out of sight she wandered around in a and pulled her and her baby out of state of fear and desperation, resting by bed and pushed them through the day and groping in the darkness of the open door. forest at night, accompanied by the When the two boys held back constant apprehension of being found. from following, one was picked up In May 1792, Massy Harbison and her Eating berries, roots, and soft bark, she by the heels and his head was dashed three young children were attacked and was exposed to inclement weather, and against the doorpost, killing him. abducted by a party of Indians. Only Massy came close to being recaptured when The intruding party placed the captive and her newborn baby survived the ordeal. the child began to cry, bringing one mother and her infant upon what was On a long and forlorn trek to the of the pursuing warriors within a few reported as a stolen horse and they area where the city of Butler now steps of where they lay hidden. Afraid crossed the river. On the far bank, the stands, the distraught mother, borne to sleep, she went without it to ensure surviving brother was killed to silence down by these atrocities and her that the baby would not cry again. his screams and then scalped. unimaginable losses, decided to take continued on page 14 14 bar • side DECEMBER 2020

Remembering Justice Ruthcontinued Bader from page 5

Ginsburg—Anprovide benefits based on the Inspiration the same military housing allowance earnings of a deceased husband The current justices of the United as a man. A woman could cut a man’s and father to both the widow and States Supreme Court are: hair, buy a drink at the same age, children. Ginsburg argued that a — Chief Justice John G. Roberts, administer an estate, and serve provision that treated widowed fathers Jr. (G.W. Bush, 2005) on a jury.”9 differently than widowed mothers — Associate Justice Clarence Her career is a testament to one was discriminatory. Her logic was that Thomas (G.H.W. Bush, 1991) of her famous quotes: “Real change, women’s Social Security taxes resulted — Associate Justice Stephen G. enduring change, happens one step in fewer family benefits than the taxes Breyer (Clinton, 1994) at a time.” — Associate Justice Samuel A. paid by working men if a widower After her appointment to the Alito, Jr. (G.W. Bush, 2006) got a lower Social Security payment. United States Supreme Court, Justice — Associate Justice Sonia She also argued that men were being Ginsburg went on to author many Sotomayor (Obama, 2009) denied the opportunity to care for — Associate Justice eloquent opinions but was possibly their children in comparison to (Obama, 2010) most well known for the dissents that women. This case highlighted one — Associate Justice Neil M. she authored. All of that is a subject of her core beliefs, which was that Gorsuch (Trump, 2017) for another day. 8 discrimination hurts everyone. The — Associate Justice Brett M. From the courtroom to the case was decided in favor of her client Cavanaugh (Trump, 2018) internet and from lawyers to women by a 8–0 majority. — Associate Justice Amy Coney everywhere, Justice Ginsburg will As an article in TIME magazine Barrett (Trump, 2020) continue to inspire many of us for explained about her career as a litigator, years to come. With her inspiration, “When she was done, a widower could maybe we can all continue to take get the same Social Security benefits those little steps forward each day? I 8 Pullman, Sandra, et al. as a woman, and a woman could claim Author’s note: You can access audio recordings of the arguments made by Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the Westmorelandcontinued Women from page 13 on Supreme Court at Oyez.org. theThrough Frontier the dark, she maneuvered with briars and thorns, some of which 9 Carlson, Margaret. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Died. She Leaves Behind a Vital Legacy though thick brush, separating it with pierced through her feet. A physician for Women—and Men.” TIME, 4 Oct. 2020, one hand while carrying the babe in was brought from Pittsburgh and pp. 13–18. her shawl, the corners of the covering took her back to that settlement, held between her teeth. On a stormy where, in due time, she and her night, when she thought she would child recovered. die, she rested her forehead against the As we conclude this year marking bark of a tree, and sheltered her little the centennial recognizing the right one, receiving upon her half-covered of women to fully participate in the head the pelting of a pitiless storm. democratic process, these stories are Dogot you have news? news to share with Nevertheless, she rose again and began a vivid reminder of the unheralded her wanderings anew. challenges and victories of the women the sidebar? Making Partner? After several days passed, she came who came before us. They shaped the Engagement? Marriage? Birth? upon a house by the river. The house generations which followed them and Moving? Retiring? Anniversary? was deserted. As she ran to the river are deserving of our gratitude and Milestones? Awards? Community bank she saw their salvation—two honor. I Involvement? Accomplishments? men on the opposite bank, who Email [email protected] crossed over and took her to the SOURCE blockhouse. There, she was in a state — Albert, George Dallas. History of the and we’ll publish your news in County of Westmoreland. L.H. Everts of delirium, her clothing nearly torn the next available issue. & Co,1882. away, her limbs lacerated and filled bar 15 DECEMBER 2020 side •

To-Wit:by S. Sponte, Esq. Sambackwoods and country boy,Me with a strong As is typical preference for unfiltered cigarettes, for first year o let me tell you about Sam and hootch and large-chested women. law students, me. We met our first day of law And if those things weren’t sufficiently we were Sschool, and immediately came differentiating, Sam’s ancestry is overwhelmed to regard each other with mutual Irish/Native American Catholic by the antipathy. “Hiya,” he had said as academic he first approached me with hand I at once concluded he demands of our course load. “It’s too extended, “I’m Sam.” I was so taken was a dumb hick, and he much,” I complained to him one day aback by the suddenness and directness in the student lounge. “How can we of his unsolicited self-introduction that at once concluded I was an possibly keep abreast?” “I don’t know,” I instantly sought refuge in the safety intellectual snob. It wasn’t he said. “I’ve been trying to figure that of convention. “How do you do,” I the last time I’d be wrong, out since I was a kid.” replied, not even bothering to tell him I soon came to see that Sam’s my name. I at once concluded he was a and it wasn’t the last innate loquaciousness and bubbling dumb hick, and he at once concluded time he’d be right. personality were just perfect for the I was an intellectual snob. It wasn’t the practice of law, and it was most on last time I’d be wrong, and it wasn’t the and mine is Polish/Russian Jew. display in moot court. He loved it so last time he’d be right. None of that, however, stopped us much and took it so seriously that for Sam and me, we could not have from becoming fast friends fast. In him there was nothing “moot” about come from more different backgrounds; fact, it probably accelerated it; it just it. When, as it turned out, we faced off I was a prep school/Ivy Leaguer, with gave us more to make fun of. against each other in the moot court a strong preference for cities, string I remember the exact moment finals, he was way better prepared than quartets and wine, and he was a I knew we were true kindred spirits. continued on page 16

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To-Wit:I was, and he positively Samwhen for and years thereafter Me he sports teams. Hockey, all over the country to ripped me a new one; referred to me as a “ten.” It baseball, football, we loved lecture others on the evils even worse, he thoroughly made him laugh; me, too. them all. For those of you of demon rum. He both enjoyed it. After graduation, I went who have inquired where founded and funded an “Jeez, Sam,” I said to to Washington, D.C., to I learned my extraordinary AA club in his hometown, him afterwards, “did you be a crusading government vulgarity, now you know; primarily to help others but have to be so rough?” lawyer and Sam went at any game, Sam’s creativity also to help himself. You “Please don’t take it back to his flinging vulgar don’t love Sam in spite of personally,” he implored, hometown epithets at his being an alcoholic; it looking every bit the part of to set up a Every time he opposing teams is, contrariwise, one of the a kicked puppy, “I can’t do practice. I soon seems limitless. reasons that you do. my best unless I force myself learned that calls and I say I would share As I told his wife just the to hate the guts of opposing there was very hello, he yells, some of them other day, the reason it’s so counsel, even if it’s you.” little crusading “IT’S THE with you, but easy to love Sam is because He could tell by the look on to be done as this is not the he loves so easily to begin my face that I was still hurt. a government INDIAN!” place. First with. I know there are those “Oh, please don’t fret,” he lawyer, and so off, the editor of you out there who think went on, “I’ll eventually after a pit stop would never we have assembled here forgive you.” or two along the way, I permit it; second, they do today to say goodbye to Sam and me, we did well returned home to set up my tend to singe one’s eyebrows. Sam. Well, let me then be in law school, but he did a own practice. Now that we Sam has always loved the first to disabuse you of little bit better. I graduated were in adjacent counties, being part Native American. that notion. Say goodbye tenth in the class, he was we started spending a Every time he calls and I say to Sam, I should say not. eighth. Everyone thought lot more time together, hello, he yells, “IT’S THE What we will do instead is he was complimenting me especially with our pro INDIAN!” The first time keep him in our heads and he called my office and my in our hearts, we will think secretary inquired as to who about all his kindnesses, was calling, that’s what he his unyielding devotion screamed. He then let loose to friends, family and with a war whoop so loud profession, we will that it left her deaf in her remember the generosity right ear for days. of his spirit and all the Although at first wonderful things Sam understandably cautious, has done with his life, and she soon came to love Sam, we will give thanks every too, and one day, noticing day that we have such his birthday in my calendar, a friend. I she humorously sent him ©2020, S. Sponte, Esq. a bottle of wine from the Iroquois Vineyards. Oh, how I wished then that I had told her Sam was an alcoholic. He was in recovery, sure, but an alcoholic nonetheless. He approached this disease with the same humor and purposefulness that has always characterized his life. When he decided to quit drinking, he joined AA and soon started traveling bar 17 DECEMBER 2020 side •

NOVEMBER 2020 TRIAL TERM On July 15, 2014, during the course f the 10 cases on the of her employment as a mail delivery JURY TRIAL November 2020 Civil Jury person, Plaintiff tripped and fell OTrial list, 3 settled, 6 were on uneven sidewalk at the home of VERDICTS continued, and 1 proceeded to a Defendants. According to Plaintiff, jury trial. there was a defect in the sidewalk at the point where two sections of concrete KIMBERLY ROSS joined together, causing an uneven by Leeann Pruss, Esq., V. path of travel to the front door, and and Caitlin Bumar, Esq. DAVID LOMICKA Defendants knew or should have AND CHRISTINE LOMICKA, known the defect existed. As a result HIS WIFE of her fall, in addition to bruising and NO. 2252 OF 2016 lacerations, Plaintiff sustained a torn Cause of Action: Negligence right rotator cuff, which required surgery. Plaintiff sought damages in the amount of her wage loss, medical expenses, and pain and suffering. Defendants raised a claim for CLIENT DENIED comparative negligence, arguing that Plaintiff used the same path on which LONG-TERM DISABILITY? she tripped many times over the years. Also, Defendants claimed that the difference in elevation of the concrete WE CAN HELP. was trivial and open and obvious. Plaintiff could have observed the alleged defect if she had looked. Trial Dates: November 2–3, 2020 Plaintiff’s Counsel: Jeffrey D. Monzo, QuatriniRafferty, P.C., Gbg. Defendants’ Counsel: Nelson B. Gaugler, Law Office of Kelley A. Morrone, Wexford Trial Judge: The Hon. Chris Scherer Result: Verdict in favor of the Plaintiff, allotting liability 80% to Defendants and 20% to Plaintiff. Damages awarded to Plaintiff in the amount of $39,413.52. I

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