Save the Date: Judge Gertner Book Signing and Wine and Cheese Reception
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Location & Date UNH School of Law 2 White Street Room 282 of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property Concord, NH map Oct 11, 2011 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
In April 1994, with twenty years of groundbreaking and controversial cases behind her, Nancy Gertner was appointed to serve as a Federal Judge in Massachusetts. In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate, Gertner reflects upon her career as an outspoken, “outsider” lawyer, representing criminal and civil cases focused on women’s rights, civil liberties, and breaking down the gender barriers of the 1970s and 80s.
In Defense of Women chronicles one woman’s revolutionary career at a time when the world around her was trying to hold her back. For young lawyers looking for guidance, Gertner writes that, when it comes to becoming a judge, there is “no right way, no clear path,” noting that, “the issue is less where you start than where you end up.” The lessons she imparts about fighting for what you believe in, and striving against all odds to create the life you want for yourself, ring as true for women in the 21st century as they did in the 1970s. Gertner wrote the book to record those struggles. “I wanted to memorialize these stories, if only for my kids, my friends, myself,” she writes. “I had been there, done that. It had been quite a ride; important lessons had been learned personally and professionally; and maybe—just maybe—some good had been done.”
Copies of Judge Gertner's book will be available for purchase at the event.
