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Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg Visits Smith to Receive AwardRuth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, will be at Smith College on Friday, Sept. 12, to accept the college's first Sophia Smith Award. The ceremony honoring Ginsburg will take place at 4:30 p.m. in John M. Greene Hall and is open to the public. The award was established in 1996 by the Smith board of trustees as part of a year-long celebration marking the bicentennial of the birth of Smith's founder, Sophia Smith. It recognizes an individual who, "by virtue of intelligence, energy, vision and courage, has made a significant and lasting contribution to the education of women." Ginsburg has been a leading voice in shaping a constitutional understanding of gender equity. "Her commentaries on the issues surrounding gender discrimination illuminate the way stereotyping can operate to deprive women or men of equal treatment in many aspects of work and education," commented Jill Ker Conway, president emerita of Smith and one of those who reviewed nominees for the award. The award ceremony will include remarks by two friends and colleagues of Ginsburg: Wendy W. Williams, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center; and Herma Hill Kay, dean of the University of California, Berkeley, Law School. Ginsburg will speak after receiving a medal representing the award designed by Elliot Offner, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Smith. She has chosen two organizations to share the $10,000 that is also part of the prize: The Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program based at Georgetown University Law Center, and, for use in purchasing diaries, memoirs and other material on women and the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. As part of Smith's tribute to Ginsburg, a roundtable discussion, entitled "In Pursuit of Justice: Women's Equality and the Public Good," will be held in Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall, Saturday, Sept. 13, at 10 a.m. Participants in the discussion will include: Jane Lakes Harman, Congresswoman from California's 35th district; Catharine MacKinnon, professor of law at the universities of Michigan and Chicago; Agnes Bundy Scanlan, senior vice president, Fleet Financial Group; Stephanie Kulp Seymour, chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; Gloria Steinem, author, editor, and feminist organizer; and Nina Totenberg, legal correspondent for National Public Radio and the American Broadcasting Company. The roundtable conversation is also free and open to the public. |
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