Women and the Supreme Court Bar

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; former Counsel in several Supreme Court cases

Pamela Karlan, Professor, Stanford Law School; Co-Director, Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic

Patricia Millett, Partner and Co-Chair of Supreme Court Practice, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP; former Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States

Virginia Seitz, Partner, Supreme Court and Appellate Practice, Sidley Austin LLP

Georgetown University Law Center
McDonough Hall - Hart Auditorium

600 New Jersey Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C.  20001

The panelists will discuss their career paths to appellate practices and their experiences as Supreme Court advocates, offering guidance to other women who hope to practice before the Court.  They will also take on the issue of gender diversity in the Supreme Court Bar, addressing obstacles to fuller participation by women and ways to increase the number of women lawyers in Supreme Court practice.

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Law Supreme Court Institute, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, and Women's Legal Alliance.

A Webcast will be available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.

Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.