While the majority of law school students are women, women make up just a third of state and federal judges. NAWJ's Judge Toni Clarke talks about the importance of gender and racial diversity on the bench. Watch our full piece:
The Supreme Court has played a key role in women’s rights for centuries: determining whether employment discrimination, financial equality, contraception, and most recently, abortion, would be the laws of the land.
Record cites her mentors as instrumental throughout her career, which has included time serving as a deputy solicitor general and clerking for two Supreme Court Justices, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. “By the time I got to the D.C. Circuit, she was in her 90s. She spoke with a soft, southern accent. She wore a lace collar and cuffs, but she was a woman of real steel,” Justice Ginsburg said at a speech in 2017.
Shelton Matthews led the legal research team and spearheaded efforts to identify and produce publications citing discrimination against women in state laws. “A couple was divorced; the mother didn't necessarily have rights to the children. There's also women were disqualified for jury service. And that was true in many states,” says Navara.
Citing eminent domain, the government tried to seize the property. They offered a small sum in exchange for the National Woman’s Party Headquarters. “I believe that they assumed that the women would roll over easily and they just didn't. They didn’t just give up the land and they didn’t give it up cheap.
The story remains largely unknown; it’s even omitted from the history of the Supreme Court on their official website. But some argue it is a story worth sharing. “The most important part is the perspective that we bring to the bench and the things that we've experienced generally, collectively, obstacles that perhaps our male counterparts couldn't even understand, let alone have experienced,” says Judge Toni Clarke, President of the National Association of Women Judges. "It's important to have women on the bench, women lawyers, who, you know, reflect the community we serve,” says Clarke.
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