First Women: Barbara Babcock

I am honored to be the first of the first women to speak in this space. My major first was professor at Stanford Law School—which has led in turn to associate firsts (to gain tenure, hold an endowed chair, be an Emerita).

We first women are a vanishing breed in the legal profession –soon all the first spots will be occupied. Soon too in legal time (though not in my lifetime), we will reach nirvana when the sex of the person who wrote the brief, ran the agency, argued the case or taught the class is no longer a matter of notice or comment.