THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Virginia Kerr
“The Struggle Continues”
Attorney, Educator, Activist. Field organizer for the Day Care and Child Development Council of America. National Coordinator of the National Women’s Political Caucus, DC. Law clerk to Justice Sidney Schreiber of the New Jersey Supreme Court and, during the 1978-79 term, was law clerk to Justice Potter Stewart of the United States Supreme Court. B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, 1966. University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1977. Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, May 2024
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The controversy surrounding publication of The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, brought about a Law School Symposium in which four of the School’s Faculty addressed some of the issues raised by the book’s content.
Professor Frank Goodman moderated the panel composed of Professors Stephen Burbank, a former clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger; Virginia Kerr, a former law clerk to Justice Potter Stewart; and Ralph Spritzer, a highly-respected appellate advocate and a former Deputy Solicitor General of the United States.