Women's History Month Display

Each year, the month of March is celebrated as Women's History Month. This year's theme, as declared by the National Women's History Project, is titled "Celebrating Women of Character, Courage, and Commitment." President Obama's proclamation of Women's History month also urges us to "recognize the victories, struggles, and stories of the women who have made our country what it is today."

Accordingly, the Law Library is featuring a Women's History Month display which highlights several biographies and autobiographies of women who have made important contributions to our nation's history through their involvement in the law and legal profession.

Featured in the display are the following titles:

Without Precedent: The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp / by Anna R. Hayes
(Susie Marshall Sharpe was the first woman to become Chief Justice of a State Supreme Court - North Carolina)

Fight Back and Win: My Thirty-year Fight Against Injustice, and How You Can Win Your Own Battles / by Gloria Allred (with Deborah Caufield Rybak)
(Gloria Allred is a civil rights lawyer who has represented clients in high-profile cases concerning women’s rights issues)

America’s First Woman Lawyer: The Biography of Myra Bradwell / by Jane M. Friedman
(Myra Bradwell appealed the denial of her admission to the Illinois State Bar to the U.S. Supreme Court - Bradwell v. Illinois, 83 U.S. 130 (1873))

Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography / by Constance Baker Motley
(Constance Baker Motley wrote the original complaint in Brown v. Board of Education and was the first African-American Woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court)

Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes / by Darwin Payne
(Judge Hughes swore in President Lyndon B. Johnson on Air Force One in 1963 and was on the panel of judges that heard Roe v. Wade in Texas, which was later affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court)

Sandra Day O’Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice / by Joan Biskupic
(Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman to serve as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court, nominated by President Regan and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1981)

More information on Women's History Month is available from the Library of Congress here.