Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's Nonfiction Best Book of 2020, National Law JournalThe inspiring...
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Author: Hannah Brenner Johnson
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Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court by Johnson, Hannah Brenner

Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

$60.80

Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

$60.80
Author: Hannah Brenner Johnson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's Nonfiction

Best Book of 2020, National Law Journal

The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered--but not selected--for the US Supreme Court

In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court after centuries of male appointments, a watershed moment in the long struggle for gender equality. Yet few know about the remarkable women considered in the decades before her triumph.

Shortlisted tells the overlooked stories of nine extraordinary women--a cohort large enough to seat the entire Supreme Court--who appeared on presidential lists dating back to the 1930s. Florence Allen, the first female judge on the highest court in Ohio, was named repeatedly in those early years. Eight more followed, including Amalya Kearse, a federal appellate judge who was the first African American woman viewed as a potential Supreme Court nominee. Award-winning scholars Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson cleverly weave together long-forgotten materials from presidential libraries and private archives to reveal the professional and personal lives of these accomplished women.

In addition to filling a notable historical gap, the book exposes the tragedy of the shortlist. Listing and bypassing qualified female candidates creates a false appearance of diversity that preserves the status quo, a fate all too familiar for women, especially minorities. Shortlisted offers a roadmap to combat enduring bias and discrimination. It is a must-read for those seeking positions of power as well as for the powerful who select them in the legal profession and beyond.

Author: Hannah Brenner Johnson, Renee Knake Jefferson
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 02/15/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781479811960

About the Author
Hannah Brenner Johnson (Author)
Hannah Brenner Johnson is Vice Dean for Academic and Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Law at California Western School of Law in San Diego.

Renee Knake Jefferson (Author)
Renee Knake Jefferson is Professor of Law and holds the Joanne and Larry Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center.


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