This is the birthday of Roberta Cooper Ramo, who I don’t know personally and didn’t know much about at the time that she became the first woman president of the American Bar Association (1995-96). With the nomination of another woman lawyer pioneer as the Democratic candidate for President, it seems like a good time to bone up on the social history of women in law and politics. I’d recommend COURTING KATHLEEN HANNIGAN my first novel, an insider’s look at what Hilary’s life as a young lawyer would’ve been like had she come home to the northwest suburbs from Yale Law (like I did) and joined a large blue-stocking Chicago law firm as one of its first women. ($3.99 on Kindle) It’s fiction, and it’s all true.
