THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Sybil Shainwald
April 27, 1928 – April 9, 2025
“A Lifetime of Championing Women’s Reproductive Rights.”
Attorney and expert in women’s health law. The National Women’s Health Network. Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. Dalkon Shield Information Network. National Network to Prevent Birth Defects. Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation. American Association for Justice (also known as Association of Trial Lawyers of America).
Interviewed by Penny Stoil, VFA Board, March 2019
Sybil Shainwald
More About Sybil:
- Obituary, The New York Times
- Sybil’s website
- VFA Salute to Feminist Lawyers, Harvard Club, NYC 2008
- Women’s Health Advocate
- William & Mary Libraries – Interview Class of ’48
- Sidney Shainwald Public Interest Lecture Series, at NY Law School
- Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
- Who’s Who in America
