THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Nancy Stanley
“The Women’s Movement Gave Me Purpose.”
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), 1971-1973. Co-founder of the first feminist law firm, Bellamy, Blank, Goodman, Kelly, Ross & Stanley, 1972. Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1977-1978. Trial Attorney, Environment Division (formerly Lands Division), U.S. Department of Justice, 1978-1980. Assistant General Counsel Federal Communications Commission, 1980-1989. Chief Mediator U.S. Courts for the District of Columbia Circuit 1989-2007. University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1962-63. Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. B.A. 1964. George Washington National Law Center, J.D. 1970.
Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, January 2023
More About Nancy:
- Veteran Feminists of America, Salute to Feminist Lawyers, Harvard Club, NYC, June 9, 2008
- In conversation with Whitney Adams and Nancy Stanley, 1979, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
- As referenced in Nancy’s interview: Geduldig v. Aiello, 417 U.S. 484 (1974)
- They make a good case for women lawyers, by Beth Fallon, June 28, 1973
