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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: BROOKSLEY BORNadmin2020-03-13T11:53:28-04:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Brooksley Born

“What we found was appalling…the breadth of discrimination in case law and common law and statutory law.”

Attorney, Policy Maker and Changer. Helped found the Women’s Legal Defense Fund, now the National Partnership for Women and Families. Women’s Rights Project of the Center for Law and Social Policy. Board Chair of National Women’s Law Center. Established the Rights of Women Committee of the American Bar Association’s section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, and served on its governing council. First woman on the ABA’s Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary and was its first woman chair. ABA’s Commission on Women in the Profession. Co-founded and co-chaired the ABA’s women’s caucus. Former Chair of the Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, February 2020

Photo 1. First female president of the Stanford Law Review, Spring 1964. Photo 2. Brooksley Born, Board Chair of National Women’s Law Center with Marcia Greenberger and Nancy Duff Campbell, co-Presidents, National Women’s Law Center. Photo 3. Brooksley questions Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke during the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission about the actions of the Federal Reserve during the 2008 financial crisis and the future of financial market regulation. Photo 4. Brooksley Born accepts the JFK Profile in Courage Award at the JFK Library, 2009.

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More About Brooksley:

  • National Women’s Law Center, Brooksley Born Innovation Fund
  • Brooksley Born delivers 2016 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Distinguished Lecture on Women and the Law
  • National Equal Justice Library Oral History Collection, Georgetown Law Library Interview June 2015
  • ABA Women Trailblazers Project
    • Interview with Brooksley Born on the ABA Woman Trailblazers Project
  • Brooksley Born accepts the 2009 Profile in Courage Award, May 18, 2009
  • 2010 Margaret Brent Award Honoree Brooksley E. Born
  • Frontline on PBS – The Warning
  • Legends in the Law Interview, Washington Lawyer 2003
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Cited in Barbara Love’s Book – Feminists Who Changed America – page 50

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