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The Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Distinguished Lecture on Women and the Law
The Association created this special annual lecture in 2000 to recognize Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's ground-breaking contributions to the advancement of women's rights and her achievements as a lawyer, professor and judge.
2019
Hon. Ann Claire Williams
Judge, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (Ret.); Of Counsel, Jones Day
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2018
Barbara Babcock
Author and Crown Professor of Law, Emerita, Stanford Law School
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2017
Patricia Bell-Scott
Author and Professor Emerita of Women's Studies and Human Development and Family Science, University of Georgia
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2016
Brooksley Born
Former Chair, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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2015
Gloria Steinem
Writer and Feminist Organizer
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2014
Justice Elena Kagan
U.S. Supreme Court
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2013
Judge Nancy Gertner
Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School
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2012
Nina Totenberg
Legal Affairs Correspondent, NPR
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2011
Martha Minow
Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
2009
Melanne Verveer
U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
2008
Linda Greenhouse
Former Supreme Court Correspondent, The New York Times
2007
The Honorable Shirley S. Abrahamson
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Wisconsin
The Honorable Christine M. Durham
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Utah
The Honorable Judith S. Kaye
Chief Judge of the State of New York
The Honorable Margaret H. Marshall
Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
2005
Mary Robinson
Former President of Ireland
2004
Roxanne Barton Conlin
First woman president, Association of Trial Lawyers of America
2002
Lani Guinier
The Bennet Boskey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
2001
Madeleine K. Albright
Former United States Secretary of State
2000
Kathleen L. Sullivan
Dean, Stanford University School of Law
