KATE STONEMAN DAY 2021

Celebrating individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to seeking change and expanding opportunities for women within the legal profession

Monday, March 22, 2021

PROGRAM

WELCOME & INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Melissa Breger Professor of Law, Albany Law School Faculty Chair, Stoneman Committee Alicia Ouellette ’94 President & Dean, Albany Law School

PRESENTATION OF KATE STONEMAN AWARDS Hon. Christine M. Clark ’96 Associate Justice, NYS Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department Introduced by Hon. Elizabeth A. Garry ’90, Presiding Justice, NYS Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department Donna E. Young Founding Dean of Ryerson University’s Faculty of Law in Toronto, Canada; Longtime member of the Albany Law School faculty Introduced by Georgia A. Sackey ’20 and Catrina Young ’20, active student leaders while attending Albany Law School and mentees of Prof. Young

Katheryn D. Katz Student Award Jessica N. Haller ’21 For her submission of “If social media was around when Kate Stoneman was alive” creative document.

Miriam M. Netter ’72 Stoneman Award and Keynote Speaker Nancy Hogshead-Makar Olympic champion, civil rights lawyer, and CEO of Champion Women KATE STONEMAN DAY 2021

2021 Keynote Speaker & Miriam M. Netter ’72 Stoneman Award Recipient Nancy Hogshead-Makar Olympic champion, civil rights lawyer, and CEO of Champion Women

ancy Hogshead-Makar is an Olympic champion, civil rights lawyer, and CEO of NChampion Women, a non-profit providing legal advocacy for girls and women in sports. Focus areas include equal play, such as traditional Title IX compliance in athletic departments, sexual harassment, abuse and assault, as well as employment, pregnancy and LGBT discrimination within sport.

Hogshead-Makar led an eight-year effort to protect athletes from sexual abuse in club and Olympic sports, that is, sport not associated with schools. Most recently, she galvanized the sport, child protection, and civil rights communities in support of a new federal law, the SafeSport Act, signed into law in February, 2018. Near-term work includes amending the Ted Stevens Olympic Sports Act, the statute governing the power-structure in the U.S. Olympic movement. Ideally, athletes would not be dependent on the benevolence of the USOC Board and executives; that athlete authority would be part of the architecture of the Olympic movement, including finances, the ability to speak out about abuse without retaliation, and stronger gender equity protections.

As an internationally recognized legal expert on sports issues, Hogshead-Makar has testified in Congress numerous times on the topic of gender equity in athletics, and written numerous scholarly and lay articles, She serves as an expert witness in Title IX cases and writes amicus briefs representing athletic organizations in precedent-setting litigation, and is a frequent guest on national news programs on the topic, including CNN, ESPN, NPR, Fox News, MSNBC and 60 Minutes. Her book, co-authored with Andrew Zimbalist, Equal Play, Title IX and Social Change, has received acclaim since its release by Temple University Press. She was the lead author of Pregnant and Parenting Student-Athletes; Resources and Model Policies, published by the NCAA.

Hogshead-Makar is a frequent keynote speaker, and regularly contributes to shaping policy for girls and women. She has served on the NCAA Task Force on Gender Equity, and on the boards of Equality League, the Association of Title IX Administrators, the Aspen Institute’s Sport and Society, the One Love Foundation, and the World Olympians Association. From 2003 - 2012 she was the Co-Chair of American Bar Association Committee on the Rights of Women. She was elected to the editorial board of the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport. Sports Illustrated Magazine listed her as one of the most influential people in the history of Title IX.

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Hogshead-Makar has received significant awards recognizing her commitment to girls and women in athletics, from the International Olympic Committee, the National Organization for Women, the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators, the Alliance of Women Coaches, SHAPE America, and the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Award. She has been inducted into the Academic All-America Hall of Fame, the International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame, the National Consortium for Academics and Sports Hall of Fame, the National Association for Sports and Physical Education Hall of Fame, and she has been awarded an honorary doctorate.

Hogshead-Makar capped eight years as a world class swimmer at the 1984 Olympics, where she won three gold medals and one silver medal. Through high school and college dual meets she was undefeated. Major awards include the Nathan Mallison Award, given to Florida’s outstanding athlete, and the prestigious Kiphuth Award, given to America’s best all-around swimmer nationally. Hogshead-Makar has been inducted into eleven halls of fame, including the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame.

She and her husband Scott Makar, a judge on Florida’s First District Court of Appeal, have a son and twin daughters. They are continuously restoring their 1920s Mediterranean home. KATE STONEMAN DAY 2021

2021 Kate Stoneman Honoree Hon. Christine M. Clark ’96 Associate Justice, New York Supreme Court Appellate Division Third Judicial Department

on. Christine M. Clark ’96 is an Associate Justice of the New York State Supreme HCourt, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department. Justice Clark has risen quickly through the legal ranks since her time at Albany Law School. After graduation, she worked at Dreyer Boyajian LLP for two years before moving on to become a Schenectady County DWI prosecutor. She later worked in the county’s felony bureau, and then as the first bureau chief of the special victims unit. She went on to establish the Schenectady County Child Abuse Multidisciplinary Team.

Her judicial career began in 2004 when she was appointed as a judge in Schenectady City Court. She was elected to that position in 2005 and five years later was elected to the bench of Schenectady County Family Court. In 2012, she became only the second woman elected to the state Supreme Court from the 11-county Fourth Judicial District. She was appointed to the Third Department in 2014.

Throughout her career, Justice Clark has dedicated herself to the advancement of women in law, regularly mentoring and offering internship opportunities to law school students; her impact on up- and-coming women attorneys has been described as “the stuff of legend.” She is an active member, frequent volunteer, and former board member of the Capital District Women’s Bar Association, which presented her with the Hon. Judith S. Kaye Distinguished Attorney Award in 2018.

She is married to Albany Law alumnus Bob Mayberger ’78 and has two teenage daughters.

As one nominator wrote, Justice Clark is “sincerely inspirational and committed to the betterment of our profession, the women involved in it, and the community that our collective work helps shape.” KATE STONEMAN DAY 2021

2021 Kate Stoneman Honoree Donna E. Young Founding Dean of Ryerson University’s Faculty of Law in Toronto, Canada; Longtime member of the Albany Law School faculty

onna E. Young is the founding dean of Ryerson University’s Faculty of Law in Toronto, DCanada. Before joining Ryerson, she was a longtime member of the Albany Law School faculty and most recently held the title of President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy.

Her teaching and scholarship focus on law and inequality, race and gender discrimination, and academic freedom and university governance. She has taught courses in Criminal Law, Employment Law, U.S. Federal Civil Procedure, Gender and Work, and Race, Rape Culture, and Law. While at Albany Law School, she was also a joint faculty member at the University at Albany’s Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Dean Young was nominated for the Kate Stoneman Award by more than 60 students at Albany Law School, as well as numerous faculty members who described her as “a mentor, a pillar of strength, a source of inspiration and reflection, a friend, a scholar, a leader in the area of faculty governance here and elsewhere, and a fantastic colleague to all of us. In particular she has inspired the women who have come after her, lifting them up, but in the true spirit of Kate Stoneman she has not stopped there, she has lifted us all, making us all better.”

Young’s advocacy—in academia, media, and public settings—and standing as a preeminent ally of gender and racial equality draws parallels “to the pioneering champion of women’s equality in the legal profession, Kate Stoneman,” her former students wrote. KATE STONEMAN DAY 2021

Past Kate Stoneman Honorees

1994 2000 2008 2014 Keynote Honoree: Keynote Honoree: Keynote Honoree: Keynote Honoree: Hon. Judith S. Kaye Hon. Mary O. Donohue ’83 Arlinda F. Locklear Navanethem (Navi) Pillay Bernard E. Harvith Martha Davis Hon. Mae A. D’Agostino Hope Lewis Helen M. Pratt ’28 2002​ Melissa Mourges ’80 Hon. Sondra Miller 1995 Keynote Honoree: 2009 Marjorie Karowe ’74 Keynote Honoree: Hon. Mary Jo White Keynote Honoree: Ruth Miner ’20* Hon. Jeanine F. Pirro ’75 Penelope Andrews Nell Minow Special Recognition: Katheryn D. Katz ’70 Gail Brown Bensen Catherine Cerulli Mary A. Lynch 1996 Georgia Nucci ’96 Anne Reynolds Copps ’81 2016 Keynote Honoree: Patricia Youngblood Reyhan 2010 Keynote Honoree: M. Catherine Richardson 2003 Keynote Honoree: Hon. Andrea Stewart- Cousins Donna J. Morse Keynote Honoree: Annette Gordon-Reed Miriam M. Netter ’72 Carol E. Dinkins Barbara Cottrell ’84 Heidi Schult Gregory ’93 Hon. Margaret T. Walsh 1997 Hon. Carmen Ciparick Dale Skivington ’79 In memory of Hon. Yvonne Mokgoro 2011 Keynote Honoree: Hon. Judith S. Kaye Hon. Constance Baker Lorraine Power Tharp Keynote Honoree: Motley Winifred R. Widmer ’54 Hon. Patricia McGowan 2017 Keynote Honoree: Gloria Herron Arthur ’85 2004 Wald Hon. Sonia Sotomayor Charlotte S. Buchanan ’80 Keynote Honoree: Margaret Clemens ’84 Herma Hill Kay 1998 Maria Melendez ’92 2018 Kate Stoneman Qudsia Mirza 2012 Keynote Honoree: Graduation Centennial Nancy K. Ota Keynote Honoree: Martha Albertson Fineman Dianne Otto Keynote Honoree: Jennifer J. Raab Cristine Cioffi ’78 Dianne R. Phillips ’88 Karen J. Mathis Lisa Codispoti ’95* Hon. Joanne M. Winslow ’86 Donna E. Wardlaw ’77 Judy Clarke Hon. Elizabeth Garry ’90 2019 2006 Rachel Kretser Hon. Joan Kohout ’74 Keynote Honoree: Keynote Honoree: Lillian M. Moy 2013 Barbara D. Underwood Margaret Montoya Margrethe Powers ’63 Keynote Honoree: Patricia E. Salkin ’88 Marjorie Semerad Marina Angel Patricia Williams Kelley Ross Brown ’91 Betty Lugo ’84 Sandra M. Stevenson ’71 Hilary Charlesworth Hon. Karen K. Peters Hon. Beverly C. Tobin ’62 Elizabeth Loewy ’84 The Kate Stoneman Ann Shalleck 1999 Theresa Higgins Snyder ’64 Honorary Committee 2007 presents the 26th anniversary Keynote Honoree: Special Recognition: Keynote Honoree: of Kate Stoneman Day in Martha W. Barnett Lisa Frisch memory of Ruth Miner ’20. Hon. Victoria A. Graffeo ’77 Cheryl D. Mills Kathryn Grant Madigan ’78 Hon. Leslie E. Stein ’81 Mary Helen Moses Sharon P. Stiller ’75 *posthumously Katherine “Kate” Stoneman First woman admitted to practice law in New York State; First woman graduate of Albany Law School; Women’s Suffragist

atherine “Kate” Stoneman was that had been stuck in committee. The same Kborn on a farm in Lakewood, N.Y., in 1841. month she was denied, with the new legislation In 1866, she graduated from the New York in hand, Stoneman reapplied for admission to State Normal College and began a teaching the bar. Her application was accepted, and she career that spanned 40 years. became New York’s first woman lawyer.

In the 1870s, soon after she began teaching, Admission to the bar did not end Stoneman’s Stoneman took an interest in women’s suffrage. pursuit of a legal education. In 1896, she She and other Albany suffragists formed the enrolled at Albany Law School, and on June Women’s Suffrage Society​of Albany to lobby 2, 1898, at age 57, she became its first woman for the extension of school suffrage to women. graduate.

Her interest in studying law began when she was Stoneman continued to play a prominent designated executrix of her great aunt’s estate. role in the women’s suffrage movement. She In 1882, she began a clerkship in the office of participated in the State Suffrage Association’s Albany attorney Worthington W. Frothingham. efforts to secure suffrage legislation in She took the New York State Bar Examination New York. She served as the State Suffrage in 1886, becoming the first woman to pass. Association’s treasurer and as secretary of its Albany chapter. In 1918, as a poll watcher In May 1886, when Stoneman applied for in Albany city elections, Stoneman saw New admission to the bar, the court denied her York’s women vote for the first time. application solely because she was a woman. The three-judge panel ruled: “No precedent, On May 19, 1925, Kate Stoneman died at the no English precedent, no necessity.” age of 84. She is buried in the Albany Rural Cemetery. Stoneman launched a successful campaign to amend the Code of Civil Procedure to permit Kate Stoneman was inducted into the National the admission of qualified applicants without Women’s Hall of Fame in 2009 in Seneca Falls, regard to sex or race, securing passage of a bill New York. KATE STONEMAN DAY 2021

Katherine “Kate” Stoneman First woman admitted to practice law in New York State; First woman graduate of Albany Law School; Women’s Suffragist

Whereupon, after qualifying as prescribed in section fifty-nine of this act, such person is entitled to practice accordingly… The race or sex of such person shall constitute no cause for refusing such person admission to practice in the courts of record of this State as an attorney and counselor.

Kate Stoneman Day celebrates the life and pioneering spirit of the first woman admitted to practice law in New York and Albany Law School’s first female graduate, Class of 1898. Learn more at katestoneman.org.