A photographic exhibit of seventy-six women serving on the state and federal bench in Connecticut from 2001-2007 is being sponsored by the Connecticut Bar Foundation James W. Cooper Fellows. The portrait exhibit will take place in conjunction with Women's History Month, March 1-15, 2007, at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford and is part of the Foundation's Oral History of Connecticut Women in the Legal Profession Project.
The Foundation will sponsor a reception to honor the women judges on March 5, 2007, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (inclement weather date: March 7, 2007) in the atrium of the Legislative Office Building in Hartford. To register, please call the Connecticut Bar Foundation at (860)722-2494.
The collection of photographs, "Women in Black, the Changing Face of the Connecticut Judiciary, was taken by Isabel Chenoweth, a lawyer and photographer from Hamden, CT. "The portraits reflect the powerful presence of women in Connecticut's judicary and consequently, their part in history," said William H. Narwold, president of the Connecticut Bar Foundation.
The Connecticut Bar Foundation James W. Cooper Fellows program is comprised of 636 distinguished judges, attorneys, and law professors who develop and present law-related educational symposia and other projects. The Fellows are currently compiling a history of Connecticut women in the legal profession, sponsoring an essay contest on the law for high school students, and are co-sponsoring with the Connecticut Bar Association a truancy intervention pilot project in the New Britain Public Schools.
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