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. Pillard '87 Hon. Carol A. Schapira '72 Hon. G. Mensah-Datsa '05 Hon. Katherine M. Polk '93 Hon. Lis Sejr '82 Hon. Marla J. Miller '80 Hon. Reena Raggi '76 Hon. Stephanie K. Seymour '65 Hon. Patricia A. Millett '88 Hon. Tynia D. Richard '90 Hon. Carol Sherman '71 Hon. Eva W. Minnetian '87 Hon. Andrea Rocanelli '89 Hon. Arlene R. Silverman '67 Hon. Susan Oki Mollway '81 Hon. Judith W. Rogers '64 Hon. Gabriele M. Smith-Lukasser '91 Hon. Karen Nelson Moore '73 Hon. Allyne R. Ross '70 Hon. Lurana S. Snow '75 Hon. Margaret M. Morrow '74 Hon. Jane R. Roth '65 Hon. Hisako Soda '03 Hon. Mary V. M . Newbury '75 Hon. Barbara M. J. Rothstein '66 Hon. E. Susan Speier Garsh '73 Hon. Priscilla Gin Orida '72 Hon. Joan R. Salzman '82 Hon. Freda M. Steel '78 HLS Alumnae in the Judiciary Hon. Elizabeth S. Stong '82 Hon. Catharina M. J. Van Santvliet '89 Hon. Laura Taylor Swain '82 Hon. Ronit Z. Walker '92 Hon. Danaya Tangdhanakanond '99 Hon. Jennifer L. Walker Elrod '92 Hon. Anna C. Terwiel '74 Hon. Zita L. Weinshienk '58 Hon. Valerie Pik-Yuen Thean '95 Hon. Kimba M. Wood '69 Hon. Cheryl R. Tompkin-Vincent '81 Hon. Wilhelmina Marie Wright '89 Hon. Amy M. Totenberg '77 Hon. Ann C. Yahner '79 Hon. Josephine Staton Tucker '86 Hon. Gloria G. Ybarra '78 Hon. Judge M. E. Turpel-Lafond '93 Hon. Laurie D. Zelon '77 Hon. Geertje van Erp Taalman Hon. Rya W. Zobel '56 Kip Nieuwenkamp '61 HLS Alumnae in the Judiciary 2003 Honorable Frederica S. Brenneman Judge Trial Referee, Connecticut Superior Court Harvard Law School Class of 1953 Radcliffe College (A.B., 1947) Judge, Connecticut Juvenile Court (1967-1978); Judge, Connecticut Superior Court (1978-1997); Law Clerk, Connecticut Legislature’s Judiciary Committee (1967) St. Joseph’s College (Hon. Doctor of Humane Letters, 2000); New England Law/Boston (Hon. Doctor of Law, 2011) Honorable Frederica Brenneman Honorable Sondra Miller (Ret.) Judge, Appellate Division, Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department Harvard Law School Class of 1953 Wellesley College (B.A., 1950) Judge, Family Court, Westchester County (1983-1986); Judge, New York State Supreme Court, Ninth Judicial Circuit (1986) 1988 Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court Columbia Law School Class of 1959 Cornell University (B.A., 1954) ACLU General Counsel (1973-1980); Law Clerk, Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri, United States District Court, Southern District of New York (1959-1961) Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg Harvard Law Review ’57-58 1998 Honorable Antoinette L. Dupont Judge Trial Referee, Connecticut Appellate Court Harvard Law School Class of 1954 Brown University (B.A., 1950) Judge, Connecticut Court of Common Pleas (1977-1978); Judge, Superior Court of the State of Connecticut (1978-1983); Chief Administrative Judge, Civil Division (1983); Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court (1983-1999), Chief Judge (1984-1997) Honorable Carol Berkman (Ret.) Justice, New York County Supreme Court, Criminal Term, First Judicial District of New York Harvard Law School Class of 1967 Cornell University (B.A., 1963) Judge, New York County, Criminal Court (1979-1982) Honorable Arlene R. Silverman (Ret.) Justice, New York County Supreme Court, Criminal Term, First Judicial District of New York Harvard Law School Class of 1967 (LL.B.) Douglass College of Rutgers University (A.B., 1964) Judge, New York County, Criminal Court (1984-1998) Honorable Kimba M. Wood Senior Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of New York Harvard Law School Class of 1969 Connecticut College (B.A., 1965) London School of Economics (M.Sc., 1966) Honorable Kimba M. Wood Honorable Nancy Gertner (Ret.) Judge, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Yale Law School Class of 1971 Yale University (M.A., 1971) Barnard College (B.A., 1967) Law Clerk, Honorable Luther Swygert United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, (1971-1972) Dean Vorenberg and Honorable Nancy Gertner 1986 Honorable Nancy Gertner Honorable Deborah A. Batts Senior Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of New York Harvard Law School Class of 1972 Radcliffe College (A.B., 1969) Law Clerk, Honorable Lawrence Pierce, United States District Court, Southern District of New York (1972-1973) Honorable Deborah A. Batts Honorable Karen Nelson Moore Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Harvard Law School Class of 1973 Radcliffe College (A.B., 1970) Law Clerk, Honorable Harry Blackman, United States Supreme Court (1974-1975) Honorable Malcolm Wilkey, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1973-1974) Honorable Faith S. Hochberg Judge, United States District Court, District of New Jersey Harvard Law School Class of 1975 Tufts University (B.A., 1972) Law Clerk, Honorable Spottswood Robinson, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (1975 - 1976) Honorable Reena Raggi Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Harvard Law School Class of 1976 Wellesley College (B.A., 1973) Law Clerk, Honorable Thomas E. Fairchild, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit (1976-1977); Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York (1987-2002) 2008 Honorable Patti B. Saris Chief U.S. District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Harvard Law School Class of 1976 Radcliffe College (A.B., 1973) Law Clerk, Honorable Robert Bracher, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1976-1977) Honorable Patti B. Saris Honorable Susan Laura Carney Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Harvard Law School Class of 1977 Harvard University (A.B., 1973) Law Clerk, Honorable Levin H. Campbell, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1977-1978) Honorable Marilyn Dolan Go Magistrate Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York Harvard Law School Class of 1977 Radcliffe College (B.A., 1973) Law Clerk, Honorable William Marutani, Court of Common Pleas, City of Philadelphia (1977-1978) Honorable Fern A. Fisher Deputy Chief Administrative Judge, New York City Courts and Director of New York State Access to Justice Program Harvard Law School Class of 1978 Howard University (B.S., 1975) Housing Court Judge, Civil Court of the City of New York, New York and Kings Counties (1989-1990); Judge, Civil Court of the City of New York (1990-1993); Supreme Court Justice, New York County (1993-2007; 2008-present); Administrative Judge, Civil Court of the City of New York (1994-2009) Honorable Fernande R.V. Duffly Justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Harvard Law School Class of 1978 University of Connecticut (B.A., 1985) Honorable Fernande R.V.