Oral history interview with Nancy F. Wechsler, 2001

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Family History; childhood; New York, New York; communist beliefs during youth, membership in National Students League; Barnard College: B.A. 1937; Columbia Law School (CLS]: LL.B. 1940; Law Review; sexism in CLS and in NY law firms; Managing Clerk, Hays, St. John, Abramson and Schulman, 1940-1; admission to NY Bar, 1941; member Office Price Administration, Office of Economic Stabilization; 1942-8; Counsel, President's Committee on Civil rights, 1946-7; admission to Supreme Court Bar, 1948; Associate, Greenbaum, Wolff and Ernst Law Finn, NY, 1955-68, partner, 1968-1982; Board of Directors, ACLU, NYC, 1964-7. ACLU National, 1978- ; member, American Bar Association; member, CLS Association, Linden and Deutsch Law Firm, 1982- , Social Problems Club as a student; impact of communist past on career; CLS, experiences; publication law, experiences; relationship between politics and law; relationship between family and career

Subjects

• Columbia University. School of Law--Alumni and alumnae.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Wechsler, Nancy--Interviews.
• Women lawyers--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2001