Columbia University Law School alumnae oral history collection, 1996-2005

Scope and Contents

The Columbia University Law School alumnae oral history collection documents the experiences of women who graduated from Columbia Law School in the mid-20th century. The project was initiated to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the admission of women to the school. Narrators include attorneys, judges, professors, and others. The collection's narrators are: Susanna E. Bedell, Marylin Bender, Margaret A. Berger, Barbara A. Black, Anita Blumstein Brody, Miriam Cedarbaum, H. Alberta Colclaser, Sofia Corradi, Florence Dreizen, Kim Ebb, Annette Elstein, Edith L. Fisch, Genevieve Lam Fraiman, Marie Louise Garibaldi, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Deborah M. Greenberg, Patricia Hatry, Phyllis S. Jaffe, Barbara Kaiser, Florynce Kennedy, Ida Klaus, Joan Koanes, Naomi B. Levine, Griselda G. Lobell, Gertrude G. Michelson, Sally Falk Moore, Joan O'Dwyer, Marilyn Ordover, Eve W. Paul, Sara Portnoy, Ruth Reichbart, Muriel Reis, Florence L. Riley, Nina S. Appel, Hazel Schizer, Renee A. Schwartz, Beatrice Shainswit, Glenda Sloan, Edith Spivack, Ruth Tachna, Judith P. Vladeck, Charlotte T.L. Walkup, Isabel Walsh, Virginia Watkin, Nancy F. Wechsler, and Theodora Zavin

Subjects

• Columbia University. School of Law--Alumni and alumnae.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Women judges--Interviews.
• Women lawyers--Interviews.