Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Virginia Watkin, 1997
Creator: | Watkin, Virginia G. | Project: | Columbia University Law School alumnae oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteAttorney-at-law
Scope and ContentsChildhood: early interest in law related to women's status, family support; education: Northfield School for Girls (boarding school) 1942, Wellesley 1946, Columbia Law School 1949, classmates and faculty, attitude toward women, impact of WWil; marriage and family: mother's career, father's attitude toward career, grandmother, husband's support; career: impact of WWII, sexual and religious discrimination, Research Assistant at Columbia Law, impact of Korean War, clerkships, impact of pregnancy and children, Legislative Assistant at American Association of University Women, associate at Covington and Burling, tax lawyer, partnership track, retired 1958-1960, grant at Radcliffe [later Bunting] Institute, Associate Counsel at Massachusetts Crime Commission, wrote book for Radcliffe Institute, litigation assistant and then partner at Herrick and Smith law firm, 1973-1974, partner at Covington and Burling, retired 1994; cases: Texas City case, ammunitions case, tax cases, depositions, courtroom experiences, women's issues
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2002
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