Advancing Women's Leadership
Roxanne Conlin
Thursday, 29 Sep 2005 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
In 1977, Roxanne Conlin became one of the first two women ever to be a United States Attorney. In 1982, she was narrowly defeated in her effort to become Iowa's first woman governor. She was also the first woman president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, a 60,000 member organization of consumer attorneys. She has her own law firm in Des Moines, where she exclusively represents people who have been harmed by others, whether by discrimination, products, doctors or vehicles. Most recently, she has been named by the National Law Journal as one of the fifty most influential women lawyers in America, one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America and one of the top 10 litigators.Cosponsored By:
- Carrie Chapman Catt Center
- Office of the Provost
- University Committee on Women
- Women's Leadership Consortium
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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