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September(27+29,(2013( Hon Jus4ces(and( Judges( Women&Transforming&Our& Communi1es&and&the&World& September(27+29,(2013( Hon. Ruth I. Abrams Class of 1956 “… it was clear one judge didn’t want me in the courtroom [even though I was the Assistant DA in Middlesex County]. He said I could not be in the courtroom without a hat and white gloves. The white hat and gloves were an excuse. Do you know how dirty the old Middlesex County courthouse was?” Honorable Ruth I. Abrams (Ret.) Justice, First Female Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Harvard Law School Class of 1956 Radcliffe College (A.B., 1953) Hon. Cynthia G. Aaron '84 Hon. Sharon V. Burrell '82 Hon. Mary Grace Diehl '77 Hon. Justice Arden '70 Hon. Zoe A. Bush '79 Hon. Raya S. Dreben '54 Hon. Christine M. Arguello '80 Hon. V. Buthelezi-Khampepe '82 Hon. Fernande R. V. Duffly '78 Hon. Deborah A. Batts '72 Hon. Diane O. Campbell '76 Hon. Antoinette L. Dupont '54 Hon. Carol Berkman '67 Hon. Yvonne E. Campos '88 Hon. Jacquelyn P. Eckert '94 Hon. Marie-France Bich '80 Hon. Susan L. Carney '77 Hon. Maryanne E. Elliott '90 Hon. Cathy Bissoon '93 Hon. Denise Jefferson Casper '94 Hon. Christine C. Ewell '86 Hon. Catherine C. Blake '75 Hon. Shelley C. Chapman '81 Hon. Gail Ruderman Feuer '84 Hon. Karen J. Brandt '79 Hon. Dorothy Chin-Brandt '75 Hon. Dale S. Fischer '80 Hon. F. S. Brenneman '53 Hon. Cynthia J. Cohen '75 Hon. Fern Fisher '78 Hon. Eileen M. Brewer '87 Hon. Laura A. Cordero '88 Hon. Lisa A. Foster '84 Hon. Carol S. Brosnahan '59 Hon. Jacqueline Scott Corley '91 Hon. Beth Labson Freeman '79 Hon. Kimberly S. Budd '91 Hon. Susan J. Craighed '93 Hon. Stephanie A. Gallagher '97 Hon. Claudia E. Buechter '94 HLS Alumnae in the Judiciary Hon. Gail A. Garinger '72 Hon. Faith Shapiro Hochberg '75 Hon. Leila R. Kern '84 Hon. Julia Dobbs Gibbs '75 Hon. Anne B. Holton '83 Hon. Gladys Kessler '62 Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59 Hon. Claire I-Hon Hsiao '04 Hon. Shannon J. Kilgore '86 Hon. Marilyn Dolan Go '77 Hon. Constance D. Hunt '76 Hon. Lucy H. Koh '93 Hon. Adrianna M. Goodland '91 Hon. Justice Margaret Insaidoo '97 Hon. Irene A. Lamb '88 Hon. Beatriz M. Gordon '96 Hon. Justice Nasira W. Iqbal '86 Hon. Barbara A. Lenk '79 Hon. Mary E. Greene '76 Hon. Iva Ivanisevic '10 Hon. E. Chouteau Levine '90 Hon. Helena R. Gweon '92 Hon. Amy Berman Jackson '79 Hon. Wilma A. Lewis '81 Hon. Juat-Jong Han '89 Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson '96 Hon. Ying-Yi Liu '97 Hon. Sydney Hanlon '75 Hon. Marie Oliver Jackson '72 Hon. Debra A. Livingston '84 Hon. Lisa White Hardwick '85 Hon. Elena Kagan '86 Hon. Elaine Lu '94 Hon. Lisa Kay Hemmer '80 Hon. Victoria S. Kaufman '89 Hon. Ingiridur Ludviksdottir '03 Hon. Emily C. Hewitt '78 Hon. Jane Kelly '91 HLS Alumnae in the Judiciary Hon. Maria Cristina Mattioli '94 Hon. Pamela M. Parker '82 Hon. Janet L. Sanders '82 Hon. Maureen D. McGee '86 Hon. Sherry L.C. Peterson '90 Hon. Patti B. Saris '76 Hon. Colleen McMahon '76 Hon. Cornelia T. L. 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