Date Chartered:  1/1/1973

Purpose

The Section on Women in Legal Education provides information to its members respecting the integration of women and women’s concerns into the legal profession and the law, promotes the communication of ideas, interests and activities among members of the Section, makes recommendations on matters concerning the administration of law schools and on the status of women in legal education and makes recommendations on matters of interest in the teaching and improvement of the law school curriculum.

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2018 Winner

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award

The purpose of this award is to honor an individual who has had a distinguished career of teaching, service, and scholarship for at least 20 years. The recipient should be someone who has impacted women, the legal community, the academy, and the issues that affect women through mentoring, writing, speaking, activism, and by providing opportunities to others.

Recipients

YearAward NameRecipientLaw School
2026Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardPatricia J. WilliamsNortheastern University School of Law
2026Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardPeggy Cooper DavisNew York University School of Law
2025Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardStacy L. LeedsArizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
2024Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardMartha MinowHarvard Law School
2023Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardCynthia NanceUniversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Robert A. Leflar Law Center
2022Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardCamille deJornaLaw School Admission Council
2021Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardKimberle CrenshawColumbia Law School
2020Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardRobin WestGeorgetown University Law Center
2019Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardPhoebe HaddonRutgers University-Camden
2018Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardTamar FrankelBoston University School of Law
2017Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardMartha Albertson FinemanEmory University Law School
2016Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardMarina AngelTemple University, James E. Beasley School of Law
2015Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardHerma Hill KayUniversity of California, Berkeley School of Law
2014Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardCatharine MacKinnonUniversity of Michigan Law School
2013Lifetime Achievement AwardAssociate Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgThe Supreme Court of the United States
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