Closing Remarks: The Women at the United States Supreme Court

CLOSING REMARKS: THE WOMEN AT THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

Thank you, thank you, Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye for your inspiring, incredible words. Thank you to every person of my dream panel, and I have been dreaming about this panel for about eighteen months. I just can’t believe everyone made it and spoke so beautifully. Mary Alice, thank you for such a wonderful moderation, because we aren’t very moderate, but that was good. Thank you to the Supreme Court Fellows, Alumni Association, The Women Lawyers of Los Angeles and the National Association of Women’s Lawyers for your help sponsoring this event. Thank you to all the wonderful women of Southwestern; they are all congregated over there, for all your help. Thank you to Southwestern, to Dean Garth, thank you for that. And a very special thank you to all the people behind the scenes: to Deb Leathers, Joan Bautista, who has to be exhausted, Leslie Steinberg and see that cute guy by the camera, that’s Doug Snyder, he has really, really come through. I also want to thank that wonderful string quartet that was playing as we came off the elevator. I had them play because I know how much Justice O’Connor loves music. And first thing she did when she came up was to walk over to them. Now I know some of them pretty well; that second violinist, that little cute one, that’s my husband, Bill. And the first violinist, who is so spectacular, is Sonia Luna, and we have the best violist in the entire, entire city, Carol Summers, and