Our performance — and let me call it that for a moment — is in the courtroom, with other “players” sitting at counsel table, in the jury box, or on the witness stand. The deputy and the clerk also have their roles to play. Our purpose, of course, is not to entertain but to do justice.
Progress of women in the legal profession has followed such a trajectory — nationally and locally. The founders and early members of Lawyers Club of San Diego galvanized moments, big and small, that advanced the status of women in the law. Two anecdotes reveal the grit and resilience that their efforts required.
Through it all, what I have learned is there is no “right” way. It just takes the will to find a way.
From the adverse effects of air pollution to those of surface coal mining operations and the discharge of pollutants into navigable waters, states have a critical role in protecting the environment through the administration and enforcement of federal regulations.
Because those orientations remain ominously omnipresent in our country 60 years after the Freedom Rides, it is incumbent upon all of us to take a lesson from the courage of 1961 and continue to metaphorically “ride buses” for freedom, and battle the scourge of racism that has haunted the U.S. since slavery.
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