Nos.

18-1323 and 18-1460

In the Supreme Court of the United States

JUNE MEDICAL SERVICES L.L.C., ET AL., PETITIONERS
v.
REBEKAH GEE, SECRETARY, LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH AND HOSPITALS.

REBEKAH GEE, SECRETARY, LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT

OF HEALTH AND HOSPITALS, PETITIONER

v.
JUNE MEDICAL SERVICES L.L.C., ET AL.

ON WRITS OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES

COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

BRIEF FOR MICHELE COLEMAN MAYES,

CLAUDIA HAMMERMAN, CHARANYA KRISHNASWAMI,
AND 365 OTHER LEGAL PROFESSIONALS
WHO HAVE EXERCISED THEIR
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO AN ABORTION
AS AMICI CURIAE SUPPORTING PETITIONERS

CLAUDIA HAMMERMAN
Counsel of Record
AUDRA J. SOLOWAY
ALEXIA D. KORBERG
TANYA S. MANNO MELINA MENEGUIN LAYERENZA
PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND, PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND,
WHARTON & GARRISON LLP WHARTON & GARRISON LLP
2001 K Street NW 1285 Avenue of the Americas
Washington, DC 20006 New York, NY 10019
(202) 223-7300 (212) 373-3000
chammerman@paulweiss.com
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Interest of Amici Curiae .............................................................. 1
Summary of Argument ................................................................ 3
Argument....................................................................................... 4
I. Multiple Generations of Women Have Relied
on Abortion Access to Assert Control over
Their Bodies and Lives ................................................... 4
II. Safe and Legal Access to Abortion Has Been
Critical to the Personal and Professional Lives
of Legal Professionals Like Amici ................................. 5
A. Amici Obtained Their Abortions
for Diverse Reasons .................................................. 5
1. Breaking The Cycle of
Teenage Parenthood ..................................... 7
2. Continuing Their Education .......................... 8
3. Escaping Abuse ............................................. 9
4. Fetal Health ................................................ 11
5. Maternal Health .......................................... 12
B. Amici’s Abortions Played a Profound Role
in Their Personal and Professional Lives ............. 15
III. Abortion Has Expanded Access
to the Legal Profession ................................................. 17
IV. Amici’s Experiences Speak to the Impact of
Abortion Restrictions Across Time and Geography .. 20
V. Amici’s Stories Illustrate the Necessity of
Third-Party Standing for Abortion Providers ........... 25
Conclusion ................................................................................... 32
Appendix: List of Amici—368 People in the
Legal Profession Who Have Exercised Their
Constitutional Right to an Abortion.................................. A1

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TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
Cases:
Carey v. Population Servs., Int'l,
431 U.S. 678 (1977) ............................................................ 6
Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) ............................... 4
Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma Cty.,
450 U.S. 464 (1981) ............................................................ 7
Planned Parenthood of Se. Pa. v. Casey,
505 U.S. 833 (1992) ................................................. passim
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) ............................... passim
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt,
136 S. Ct. 2292 (2016) ............................................. passim

Statutes:
La. Rev. Stat. § 40:1061.10 ......................................... passim
La. Rev. Stat. § 40:1061.17 B(3) .......................................... 12
Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171.012(a)(4) ....................... 21

Court Filings:
Amicus Br. of Am. Coll. Of Obstetricians &
Gynecologists et al., Whole Woman’s Health v.
Hellerstedt, 136 S. Ct. 2292 (2016) (No. 15-274) ........... 23
Amicus Br. of Janice Macavoy et al.,
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt,
136 S. Ct. 2292 (2016) (No. 15-274) ................................ 25

Other Authorities:
Ancient History Sourcebook: The Code of the
Assura, c. 1075 B.C.E., Fordham University,
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/1075ass
yriancode.asp (last visited Nov. 30, 2019) ..................... 20
Amelia R. Miller, The Effects of Motherhood
Timing on Career Path, 24 J. Population
Econ. 1071 (2011) ............................................................ 15
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Other Authorities—continued:
Am. Bar Ass’n, A Current Glace at Women
in the Law (Apr. 2019) .................................................... 17
Stacy Caplow & Shira A. Scheindlin, “Portrait
of a Lady”: The Woman Lawyer in the 1980s,
35 N.Y. L. Sch. L. Rev. 391 (1990) ................................. 17
Danielle Keats Citron, Cyber Civil Rights,
89 B.U. L. Rev. 61 (2009) ................................................ 29
Linda Greenhouse & Reva B. Siegel,
The Unfinished Story of Roe v. Wade,
in Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories 53
(Melissa Murray, Katherine Shaw,
Reva B. Siegel eds., 2019) ........................................ 20, 25
Guttmacher Inst., Fact Sheet: Induced Abortion in
the United States (2019) ............................................... 2, 7
 INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE
Amici curiae 1 are current, former, and future
members of the legal community who had abortions and
have contributed to the legal field in myriad capacities,
including as equity partners of the largest firms in the
country, counsel to Fortune 100 companies, appointed and
career officials in state government, and employees of all
three branches of the federal government. 2 Amici include
retired judges and a current tribal court justice,
prosecutors and public defenders, public interest
advocates, professors teaching future generations of
lawyers, and a senior attorney with the Department of
Justice. Amici also include current law students,
underscoring the continued importance of the
constitutional right to safe and legal abortion to the rising
generation of lawyers.
Amici have achieved considerable professional
success; among them are former federal and state judicial
clerks, published authors, former editors-in-chief of
leading law journals, recipients of industry awards and
honors, and two MacArthur “Genius” Fellows. Multiple
Amici have argued cases before, or clerked on, this Court,
and several more are members of this Court’s bar.

1
A full list of amici curiae is appended to this brief. Pursuant to
Rule 37.6, Amici certify that no counsel for a party authored this
brief, in whole or in part, and that no person other than amici or
their counsel have made any monetary contributions intended to
fund the preparation or submission of this brief. The parties have
granted blanket consent for the filing of amicus curiae briefs.
2
Amici submit this brief only in their capacities as private citizens.
To the extent an Amicus’s employer is named, it is solely for
descriptive purposes and does not constitute the employer’s
endorsement of the brief or any portion of its content.

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Amici are united in their conviction, informed by their

legal training and by their personal and professional
experiences, that the reproductive rights this Court has
recognized and protected in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113
(1973), Planned Parenthood of Southeastern
Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), Whole
Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, 136 S. Ct. 2292 (2016), and
many other cases, must not be abrogated or regulated out
of existence.
Amici obtained their abortions for a broad variety of
reasons—both personal and medical—at different ages
and life stages, and in locations and at times where
abortion was accessible to varying degrees as a result of
state regulations. Many Amici are mothers, and some are
grandmothers, and thus intimately understand the
demands that enforced pregnancy and childbirth would
impose on women’s 3 bodies, psyches, and lives. Amici are
certain that they would not have been able to realize their
personal and/or professional goals were it not for their
ability to control their reproductive lives.
Amici are 368 individuals but they speak for many
more of the past, present, and future members of the legal
profession who have, like one in four American women,
terminated a pregnancy in their lifetimes. 4 As members
of a profession that, in its shining moments, has allowed
those with legal training to stand up for those who cannot

3
Although the term “women” is used here and elsewhere, people
of all gender identities may also become pregnant and seek abor-
tion services. Indeed, two Amici are transgender men, and one
Amicus is gender non-binary.
4
Guttmacher Inst., Fact Sheet: Induced Abortion in the United
States 1 (2019), https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/
factsheet/fb_induced_abortion.pdf (Fact Sheet).
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advocate for themselves, Amici feel uniquely empowered,

equipped, and, indeed, compelled to come forward with
their names and stories on behalf of those who still cannot
do so.
Amici submit this brief, some at immeasurable
personal and professional cost, for the countless others
who may not have the tools to navigate the legal system
to secure all that the Constitution and the Court have
rightfully promised them.
SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT
Amici write as attorneys—with both the professional
duty and honor to advocate for the rule of law—and as
people who have exercised a constitutional right that laws
like Louisiana Revised Statute § 40:1061.10 (“Louisiana’s
Act 620”) would effectively legislate out of existence.
Collectively and individually, Amici’s experiences il-
lustrate that there is nothing less at stake here than
women’s “ability to control their reproductive lives” and
thus “to participate equally in the economic and social life
of the Nation.” Casey, 505 U.S. at 856. As one Amicus
explained:
[M]y abortion, simply and profoundly, allowed
me to live my life according to my plans, to com-
plete my law degree, and to end a relationship
with someone who was not the person I wanted
to marry or co-parent with. Had that choice not
been available, I would not have the life I have
now. I would not have my husband of almost
30 years, our 26-year old daughter, or my ca-
reer as a lawyer and law professor.
Email received November 8, 2019.
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ARGUMENT
I. MULTIPLE GENERATIONS OF WOMEN HAVE
RELIED ON ABORTION ACCESS TO ASSERT
CONTROL OVER THEIR BODIES AND LIVES
Respondent asks the Court to revisit the Whole
Woman’s Health decision from just three years ago, and
thus, necessarily, to also reexamine the long line of prec-
edent undergirding that decision’s logic and result.
In cases that implicate previously recognized constitu-
tional liberty interests, as this one does, “individual or so-
cietal reliance on the existence of that liberty cautions
with particular strength against reversing course.” Law-
rence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558, 577 (2003). In the almost half
century since the Court decided Roe v. Wade, multiple
“generation[s] ha[ve] come of age free to assume Roe’s
concept of liberty in defining the capacity of women to act
in society, and to make reproductive decisions.” Casey,
505 U.S. at 860.
Indeed, for nearly five “decades of economic and social
developments, people have organized intimate relation-
ships and made choices that define their views of them-
selves and their places in society, in reliance on the avail-
ability of abortion in the event that contraception should
fail.” Id. at 856.
Amici are among those people. As one Amicus, a
prominent law professor, put it:
I write because I want the Court to know how
access to safe and legal abortion made my law
career possible and changed my life.
Until recently, I thought access to safe and le-
gal abortion in this country would never end. It
seemed self-evident that women should be able
to control what happens to their bodies and, as
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a consequence, their lives. But I am persuaded

that access is in jeopardy now and I am fright-
ened.
I fear for my daughters (one lawyer and one
journalist), my students (past, present and fu-
ture), and countless women who I don’t know
personally but who I know for certain will face
unwanted pregnancies in their lives—no mat-
ter how hard they try to avoid it.
Email received November 11, 2019. It is likewise inevita-
ble that some people, like many Amici, will face maternal
or fetal medical conditions that will lead them to terminate
(deeply) wanted pregnancies.
II. SAFE AND LEGAL ACCESS TO ABORTION HAS BEEN
CRITICAL TO THE PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
LIVES OF LEGAL PROFESSIONALS LIKE AMICI
Amici offer their stories as illustrations of a constitu-
tional promise fulfilled and as a cautionary tale about what
that promise’s erosion would cost. As one Amicus, who
was accepted to Harvard Law School shortly after her
abortion, reflected:
My life has taken twists and turns I could never
have expected. But by checking into Planned
Parenthood that day, I said yes to these twists
and these turns. I said yes to my own story. A
doctor’s appointment years ago is not the most
important part of who I am, but it has allowed
my life to be everything that it is today.
Email received November 7, 2019.
A. Amici Obtained Their Abortions for Diverse Reasons
As this Court has recognized, “[t]he decision whether
or not to beget or bear a child lies at the very heart of this
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cluster of constitutionally protected choices.” Carey v.

Population Servs., Int’l, 431 U.S. 678, 685 (1977); accord
Casey, 505 U.S. at 928 (Blackmun, J., concurring in part).
Amici know this to be true from personal experience.
Take the story of one current law student who termi-
nated a pregnancy at sixteen:
I am so grateful to live in a country that allowed
me to decide that I was not ready to give my
life to a child. I was not ready at sixteen, and I
am still not ready at twenty-six, to be the re-
sponsible parent that I know I will someday be.
I am so grateful for my country. I am so proud
to be an American. . . [After my abortion, I]
woke up with my whole life in front of me. . . .
Today, I am in my second year of law school . . .
living in the nation’s capital and studying the
law just minutes from where [the Justices of
this Court] sit. I am a good student, but getting
here took every bit of my energy and focus.
Energy and focus I would not have had if I had
spent these years raising a child. . . .
And just as my life has been changed for the
better, as well as the lives of my husband, my
mother and father and brothers and sister, my
future children will benefit enormously from
having a mother who grew from a girl into a
woman, followed her dreams and became the
best person she could be, so that she could be
the best mother possible.
Email received November 14, 2019.
Some Amici, like the above, plan to have children in
the future. Many Amici—like 59% of American women
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who have sought an abortion—already had at least one

child when they terminated a pregnancy. 5 Some Amici
chose to become a parent after their abortions, whether
biologically or through adoption. And some have decided
not to have children at all.
Amici’s personal stories are representative of the myr-
iad reasons why a person may terminate a pregnancy.
For some Amici, the decision to access abortion was em-
powering, and for others it felt like the only possible op-
tion; but for all Amici, doing so allowed them to exert
“basic control” over their lives, personally and profession-
ally. Casey, 505 U.S. at 928 (Blackmun, J., concurring in
part).
1. Breaking the Cycle of Teenage Parenthood
Many Amici recounted how their abortions allowed
them to break a generational pattern of teenage preg-
nancy and parenthood, conditions that “the State has a
strong interest in preventing” due to the “significant so-
cial, medical, and economic consequences for both the
mother and her child” that they can have. Michael M. v.
Superior Court of Sonoma Cty., 450 U.S. 464, 470 (1981).
As one Amicus, an equity partner at a prominent firm,
explained:
[A]t age 18, I wasn’t ready to become a
mother. I wasn’t ready to follow in the foot-
steps of my mother, my grandmother, and my
great-grandmother—all of whom became
pregnant before the age of 18, and none of
whom graduated from high school.

5
Fact Sheet 1.
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I knew I wanted more for myself, and more im-

portantly, for the children I would eventually
have. I was determined to break the cycle of
poverty and teenage pregnancy that had
shaped the lives of the three generations of
women in my family, and thanks to the availa-
bility of safe and legal abortion, I did.
Email received October 31, 2019.
2. Continuing Their Education
A large number of Amici received abortions while in
school and credit their ability to control their reproductive
lives with ultimately being able to attain higher education.
As one such Amicus explained, without access to safe and
legal abortion: “I would not have finished college and I
would not have gone to law school.” Email received No-
vember 8, 2019.
For some Amici, reproductive choice opened doors to
an educational and professional future that had previously
been out of reach for their families:
I was half-way through my senior year of high
school when I found out I was pregnant. I
spent my childhood watching my mom try to
make ends meet while she hopped from job to
job. I saw college as a path to being able to pro-
vide a better life for my future children—one
where I could support my family and demon-
strate that a career could be enjoyable and re-
warding.
The ability to make my own choice, to even
have a choice, gave me control over my life
when I felt like I was utterly powerless. . . .
Becoming a first-generation professional
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would have been impossible without access to

safe and legal abortion services.
Email received October 31, 2019.
3. Escaping Abuse
Several Amici reported that their abortions allowed
them to break free from a physically and/or emotionally
abusive relationship, to which any child would also have
been subjected. One Amicus, a healthcare lawyer, de-
scribed her experience:
I was in my first semester of college, in the pro-
cess of escaping an abusive and non-consensual
relationship with my high school English
teacher. He had been physically, emotionally,
and sexually abusing me for three years. . . .
[T]he morning I woke up and was not pregnant,
I had a feeling of having narrowly escaped the
end of all hope for my life. I was eighteen.
Email received November 8, 2019.
Another Amicus, a former public defender, recounted:
I had a legal abortion after a contraceptive fail-
ure. At the time, I was a young, single woman
living with an abusive boyfriend. Although I
was having difficulty extricating myself from
the relationship, I knew there was no way I
could bring a child into the world and expose
[him/her] to the abuse. And I did not want to
be connected to that man forever, by having a
child with him. . . .
After the abortion, I finally escaped the abuse,
quit my job, and went to law school. I would
never have been able to help the people I’ve
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helped as a lawyer . . . had I not been allowed

the freedom to determine my own future, by
controlling my own body at a pivotal point in
my life.
Email received November 7, 2019.
Another Amicus reflected that if “legal (and private)
abortion was not available” to her, she may not have left
“a very physically abusive relationship . . . and it’s highly
likely that I wouldn’t be practicing law today, or even be
here to talk about this. This is not an exaggeration.”
Email received November 5, 2019.
Several Amici were forced to become pregnant against
their will, whether by assault or deceit. One such Amicus
explained that her then-partner did so specifically to pre-
vent her from pursuing a career. Email received Novem-
ber 19, 2019.
Laws that result in the closure of clinics—like Louisi-
ana’s Act 620, which would eliminate all but one pro-
vider—make it harder for women suffering abuse to ac-
cess abortion without their abusive partners (or abusive
parents) finding out and inflicting more abuse and/or pre-
venting them from exercising their right to choose alto-
gether. This is because when clinics close, patients seek-
ing care at remaining clinics have to travel farther and
confront numerous other burdens, including “fewer doc-
tors, longer waiting times, and increased crowding.”
Whole Woman’s Health, 136 S. Ct. at 2313. Prolonging
pregnancy makes it more likely that the pregnant victim
begins to show. Delay can also increase the expense of the
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procedure and the expense and duration of the trip(s), 6

which in turn makes it more likely that the pregnant per-
son’s absence or efforts to raise the required funds could
be noticed. Each of these factors makes it more probable
that their pregnancy or termination could be discovered
by their abuser.
4. Fetal Health
A significant number of Amici terminated a deeply
wanted pregnancy because of a fetal diagnosis that either
rendered the pregnancy medically nonviable or would
have fundamentally impaired the fetus’s future quality of
life. For some, the decision to abort was a decision to
spare themselves and their families the additional futile
trauma of carrying to term and giving birth to a baby that
would not live long, or at all.
One Amicus, a litigator and former state supreme
court clerk who terminated a wanted pregnancy at
twenty-two weeks due to severe fetal abnormalities, ex-
plained:
My husband and I did not come to the decision
to terminate easily. We were not afraid of hav-
ing a child with debilitating disabilities. But
the unknown was terrifying. We did not want
to bring a child into this world just so he could
die a slow and agonizing death, or live each and
every day, possibly in a hospital or long-term
care setting, endlessly suffering without the
ability to offer him respite. And of course, in
the back of our mind was our first born, whose

6
Louisiana law requires women to make two separate trips to the
clinic, separated by at least 24 hours. La. Rev. Stat.
§ 40:1061.17(B)(3).
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daily life and emotional well-being would never

be the same. . . .
We still mourn his loss daily, but have no doubt
we made the right decision. I often wonder
about my child’s fate—my family’s fate—had I
lived in a state that did not support my repro-
ductive freedom or did not have easily accessi-
ble, reputable prenatal (and prenatal pediatric)
services.
I am haunted that, in another life, I would have
been forced to ascribe to my legislators’ per-
sonal religious and moral beliefs and continue
my pregnancy. Legislators who knew nothing
of my pregnancy or fetal diagnoses. Legisla-
tors who would not have had to endure the
physical trauma or emotional anguish of deliv-
ering my child to his death sentence, or sit by
his side and feel the unrelenting pain of his di-
agnoses, day after day. Legislators who would
not have to physically and financially ensure his
best possible treatment while tending to the
needs of our first born.
I can say with certainty that exercising my
right to choose was the most important parent-
ing decision I will ever make, and that the rep-
utable, immediately accessible medical care I
received was critical to my entire family’s well-
being.
Email received November 14, 2019.
5. Maternal Health
Several Amici terminated planned pregnancies be-
cause of heightened risks to their health. For example,
one Amicus, a law professor, recounted how her water
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broke much too soon, just eighteen weeks into a wanted

pregnancy that had followed years of infertility:
In a matter of hours, we went from a perfectly
healthy pregnancy to one that was doomed. . . .
[T]here were increasing risks of ascending in-
fection and sepsis, as well as hemorrhaging. . . .
We decided to terminate the pregnancy, and to
give up the only chance I would ever have to
hold my son, for the sake of my health—be-
cause I had a four year old daughter at home
who needed her mother alive and healthy.
Was my life in danger? Not imminently. But
it could be within a matter of hours, and no one
could tell me with certainty what would hap-
pen. . . .
I know with absolute certainty that adding bu-
reaucratic or institutional harms on top of the
ones that biology and fate deliver is an unnec-
essary cruelty. . . . My living child could have
been motherless; my husband a widower. I am
here, and currently pregnant again, because I
was able to receive compassionate and timely
health care without state interference.
Email received November 8, 2019.
Some Amici explained that they chose to terminate
pregnancies because their mental health or substance
abuse at the time was incompatible with either carrying a
pregnancy to term or safely parenting a child.
One Amicus described having an abortion fourteen
years ago, at a time when she was “cycling through college
semesters in manic and depressive phases” and “ap-
proaching rock bottom.” Email received October 29, 2019.
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Reflecting on what would have happened had she not been

able to obtain abortion care, she observed:
I would have self-destructed. I would not have
snapped out of it. I needed the time after my
abortion to focus on myself. Focus on getting
help. Focus on finding the right treatment.
And focus on getting better. That would not
have been possible if I’d been caring for a child,
or pining for a child I’d given up.
Today, as a mom by choice, I know for sure:
parenting is something that you have to want
to do. It would have been the one more thing
on my plate that I couldn’t have handled. It
would have been the straw that broke me. Be-
cause of that choice, I’m able to be the best
mother to my children now[;] because I was
able to heal myself, . . . I was ready and capable
of making them my priority.
Ibid.
Another Amicus revealed that she—like so many
Americans currently in the grips of the opioid epidemic—
got pregnant while addicted to heroin. At that time “[t]he
closest program that accepted pregnant addicts was
hours away” and had a “months long” waitlist. Email re-
ceived November 7, 2019. She wrote: “Despite the
clouded thinking of my addiction, I knew [an abortion]
was the better choice. I was not capable of caring for an-
other, especially for those critical nine months in the
womb. I could not even keep myself safe.” Ibid. After
terminating her pregnancy, she went on to get sober,
graduate from college magna cum laude, and attend law
school on a scholarship.
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B. Amici’s Abortions Played a Profound Role in Their

Personal and Professional Lives
Justice Blackmun observed in his Casey concurrence
that “[b]ecause motherhood has a dramatic impact on a
woman's educational prospects, employment opportuni-
ties, 7 and self-determination, restrictive abortion laws de-
prive her of basic control over her life.” Casey, 505 U.S.
at 928.
Amici’s own experiences bear this out. By declining to
carry a pregnancy to term at various points in their lives,
they were able to access opportunities that parenthood
would have at best delayed, and at worst denied.
One Amicus, who obtained her abortion while in col-
lege, observed:
Having an abortion was perhaps the single
most impactful decision I’ve ever made. . . .
[M]y right to that choice—and my practical
ability to exercise that right at a local clinic—
were indivisible from moving forward toward
economic independence, beginning my career,
and laying the path toward my joining the legal
profession.
Email received November 8, 2019.
Another Amicus, a founding partner at her firm, spoke
about her decision to terminate a pregnancy after having
two children:

7
Indeed, research shows that the ability to control reproductive
decisions, engage in family planning, and delay childbirth facili-
tates increased earnings and career success; one study estimated
that delaying motherhood can yield 9% higher earnings per year.
See Amelia R. Miller, The Effects of Motherhood Timing on Ca-
reer Path, 24 J. Population Econ. 1071, 1071 (2011).
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[W]hen my oldest was in school and my

younger one happily settled in preschool I
turned outward, back into the public sphere,
and started building a family law practice with
my wonderful colleague (who is still one of my
law partners). . . .
When I became accidentally pregnant during
this time, it was completely clear to me that not
only did I not want a third child—I was so
happy with my two girls—but also that if I went
ahead and had one the balance of my life would
have been tipped back to the home front for a
number of years, at a time when I was just
emerging from domesticity into the work world
and was so excited to have the time and energy
to build a law firm.
I felt so clear about not wanting to make that
sacrifice—I was actually surprised by how lit-
tle conflict I had about the decision (which was
very much supported by my husband as well,
although he was clear that it was my call.) And
it was the right decision; I have never once re-
gretted it.
Email received October 28, 2019.
The Court has recognized that “the mother who car-
ries a child to full term is subject to anxieties, to physical
constraints, to pain that only she must bear;” thus, when
it comes to abortion, “the liberty of the woman is at stake
in a sense unique to the human condition and so unique to
the law.” Casey, 505 U.S. at 852. Indeed, so many of
Amici’s experiences speak to the extreme physical impo-
sition of an unwanted pregnancy. Take for example the
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story of one government lawyer who became unexpect-

edly pregnant at thirty-eight, when she was already
mother to two young children with whom she had suffered
a debilitating, extreme form of morning sickness during
pregnancy:
When I discovered I was pregnant at six weeks,
I was already beginning to be nauseated. I im-
mediately knew abortion was my only option. I
didn’t want to undergo another hellish eight
months wherein I would miss work, be physi-
cally ill, feel depressed, and be unable to care
for my two very young children, all to be met
with a child neither my husband nor I wanted.
Email received November 6, 2019.
III. ABORTION HAS EXPANDED ACCESS TO THE LEGAL
PROFESSION
Since this Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973, women’s
participation in the field of law has increased spectacu-
larly, and both the legal profession and the nation are bet-
ter for it. The percentage of female law students enrolled
at ABA-approved law schools has grown from 8.5% in
1971 8 to nearly 50% today, 9 and the percentage of women
equity partners has gone from essentially none to 19%. 10
Although these advances have multiple and intersecting

8
See Stacy Caplow & Shira A. Scheindlin, “Portrait of a Lady”:
The Woman Lawyer in the 1980s, 35 N.Y. L. Sch. L. Rev. 391,
396 n.13 (1990).
9
Am. Bar Ass’n, A Current Glace at Women in the Law 4 (Apr.
2019), https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/adminis-
trative/women/current_glance_2019.pdf.
10
Id. at 2.
 18

causes, the expansion of women’s legally recognized ca-

pacity to control their reproductive lives has no doubt
played an absolutely critical role. Reproductive autonomy
has likely also played a role in the relative increase in ra-
cial and socioeconomic diversity within the legal profes-
sion.
All children require significant parental resources: fi-
nancial, emotional, and otherwise. Unwanted pregnan-
cies and unwanted parenthood carry still greater burdens.
These demands can fall with special force on low-income
people, immigrants, students who are the first in their
family to attain higher education, transgender people, and
people of color.
As one Amicus, an environmental lawyer who obtained
her abortion while attending law school on financial aid
and with “severely limited” economic resources, ex-
plained:
Without access to abortion services, it is un-
likely that I would have graduated on time—
especially not with honors. . . .
Attorneys like me, women, people of color, first
generation attorneys and first generation
Americans, are severely underrepresented in
the legal field. It pains me to imagine the le-
gion of extraordinarily talented women who
came before me and had their dreams of be-
coming an attorney snatched from them be-
cause of their lack of access to healthcare. The
absence of these women is a detriment to the
legal field because there is a crucial need for di-
verse voices and experiences. I am grateful
that my career aspirations were not stifled be-
fore I even began to practice.
 19

Email received November 15, 2019.

Or consider the experience of another Amicus, a law
professor whose parents immigrated to the United States
and who described herself as “the first person in [her]
family to graduate from grade school, high school, and col-
lege”:
I could not afford the cost of law school and so
I worked full-time and attended law school at
night. It was a precarious time—I used to get
up to go to work as a medical interpreter at 5
AM, work until 4 PM, then come to school and
take classes until 10 PM most nights. . . .
[When I became pregnant,] I remember think-
ing that I had nowhere to go, that I had no one
that I could tell. I had no health insurance; I
was barely making ends meet. Having a child
would have been impossible. Not only would I
have had to drop out of law school—I would
have had to leave work.
At the time, I was only a lawful permanent res-
ident and I remember feeling that I would also
risk my immigration status if I chose to carry
my pregnancy to term because the only way I
would have been able to do so would have been
to rely on public assistance. And so, after much
consideration, I turned to the only place I could
think of that might offer me support: Planned
Parenthood.
Email received November 8, 2019.
 20

IV. AMICI’S EXPERIENCES SPEAK TO THE IMPACT OF

ABORTION RESTRICTIONS ACROSS TIME AND
GEOGRAPHY
For as long as humans have existed, and in every cul-
ture, people have sought to terminate pregnancies.11
When people are denied meaningful access to safe and le-
gal abortion, as they were before Roe, they still terminate
pregnancies; they just do so at great risk, and under ex-
ceedingly harrowing circumstances. 12
Amici describe starkly different experiences accessing
care, with substantial variation between states and across
time. Several Amici received abortion care from clinics
that have since closed because of admitting-privilege re-
quirements (like Louisiana’s Act 620) and similar re-
strictions in other states, or from clinics that are now the
sole remaining provider in a given state.
Other Amici had to overcome significant obstacles that
were created by onerous restrictive laws like Louisiana’s
Act 620. One Amicus, a law student who was affected by
the abortion regulations that the Court struck down in
Whole Woman’s Health (one of which is substantively
identical to that at issue in this case), recounted:

11
See, e.g., Ancient History Sourcebook: The Code of the Assura, c.
1075 B.C.E., Fordham University, at I.52, https://source-
books.fordham.edu/ancient/1075assyriancode.asp.
12
For a description of the risks of illegal abortion and its disparate
impact on communities of color and other vulnerable populations,
see Linda Greenhouse & Reva B. Siegel, The Unfinished Story
of Roe v. Wade, in Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories 53,
55 (Melissa Murray, Katherine Shaw, Reva B. Siegel eds., 2019)
(Greenhouse & Siegel).
 21

I worked 3 jobs while taking 18 credit hours,

most of which were pre-law classes in the
Spring of 2015. I picked up extra shifts to af-
ford the $150 [legally mandated] initial visit
and then the $800+ procedure. . . . At the 8-
week mark, I attended the initial appointment
at the only clinic in my area. . . . After that, I
made my appointment for the procedure in the
following 48 hours 13 . . . .
But before I could go back for the final appoint-
ment, the clinic suddenly shut down . . . . It
closed due to Texas’s unconstitutional laws
within the 48-hour period between my initial
appointment and the final appointment.
I was told I would need to repeat the process at
another clinic . . . over an hour away. And I was
lucky there was one open. Another $150 for an
initial appointment, more shifts to pick up to af-
ford it, less money spent on food, more classes
missed, and another violation of my autonomy
at the hands of the state.
So I drove the hour to redo the ultrasound ap-
pointment, and since that clinic was backed up
with the influx [from] now handling an area of
over 6 million people, my appointments were
delayed. When my final appointment finally
arrived, weeks after it should have been over
and [after] weeks of being bed ridden due to my

13
The law required at least 24 hours between appointments for pa-
tients living within 100 miles of an abortion facility. Tex. Health
& Safety Code § 171.012(a)(4).
 22

pre-existing health conditions being exacer-

bated, a friend who I could trust to this level
drove me over an hour to the clinic.
Outside, I was screamed at and called many
names, and the protestors tried to surround
our car as we pulled into the parking lot. Inside
I saw people of varying ages, races, and socio-
economic statuses. I was not alone. I finally
got the procedure done.
Email received November 19, 2019. This Amicus went on
to law school, where she thrived; she will join a state gov-
ernmental entity upon graduation this spring. Despite
her ordeal, she is certain: “I would not be where I am to-
day if it was not for my decision.” Ibid.
Another Amicus, a first-generation American, ex-
plained that because of clinic closures, when she tried to
obtain an abortion in “the Oklahoma-Texas-Louisiana
area . . . the earliest slot available was 4+ weeks out.”
Email received November 10, 2019.
Amici’s experiences illustrate how the accidents of fi-
nancial resources and geography dictate how and whether
people are able to access abortion care. Indeed, multiple
Amici explained that they were only able to obtain abor-
tion care because they or their families could afford to
travel to states with less onerous restrictions.
Others were only able to exercise their constitutional
right because they happened to live in states without such
restrictions. One Amicus observed that in New Jersey,
where she got her abortion, “there was no 24 hour waiting
window, no protestors outside my clinic . . . nobody told
me about adoption options, called the 8-week-old fetus a
baby, or brought up its rights and how they could poten-
tially trump mine.” Email received October 28, 2019.
 23

Several Amici have stories that “highlight[] how bar-

riers to abortion care disproportionately impact low-in-
come women of color.” Email received October 31, 2019.
For example, one Amicus, a senior lawyer at a children’s
advocacy organization, explained that not only did she
have to travel far outside her economically disadvantaged
neighborhood to obtain her abortion—at significant cost
and difficulty—but she was forced to wait five additional
weeks for an appointment. Ibid. As she concluded: “Re-
stricting abortion care does not stop abortions. Instead,
it makes [them] more unsafe for women with limited
means.” Ibid.
The irony of Louisiana’s Act 620, and other laws that
restrict abortion access out of a purported interest in
women’s health, is that the leading medical authorities (in-
cluding the American College of Obstetricians and Gyne-
cologists and the American Medical Association) have
concluded that legal abortion is actually one of the safest
medical procedures performed in the United States. 14 In-
deed, legal abortion is fourteen times safer than carrying
a child to term and giving birth. 15
Moreover, as was the case for so many who sought
abortion pre-Roe, those who are unable to overcome the
labyrinthine restrictions imposed in Louisiana and other
states may well find a way to terminate the pregnancy an-
yway, although at heightened personal risk. Consider the
story of one Amicus, who ultimately went on to graduate
in the top of her high school class, graduate summa cum
laude from college, and enroll in a top-ten law school:

14
Amicus Br. of Am. Coll. Of Obstetricians & Gynecologists et al.
at 6, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, 136 S. Ct. 2292 (2016)
(No. 15-274).
15
Id. at 7 n.10.
 24

When I was 15 years old living in Texas, I

needed an abortion after I was taken ad-
vantage of by an older student. As I was not
yet 17, I was unable to purchase emergency
contraception after the event. Later, after tak-
ing a pregnancy test, I was unable to drive my-
self to an abortion clinic because I did not have
a driver's license.
Because my family and community were vehe-
mently pro-life, I could not seek aid in access-
ing an abortion without great risk to myself. At
the time, I felt that I would rather end my life
than go forward with an unplanned pregnancy
at age fifteen, and possibly lose the support of
my family and community.
As a result, I resorted to self-managed abortion
remedies, hoping to abort the pregnancy in se-
cret. Looking to the internet for ways to induce
miscarriage, I tried a variety of homeopathic
methods. These methods included overdosing
on emmenagogues, and convincing someone to
push me down a flight of stairs.
Email received October 30, 2019.
One Amicus explained that her mother was among
those who have lost their lives attempting self-abortion:
My mother died in 1959, leaving four children,
a successful husband and heartbroken parents.
She was 31. I was 11 years old and abortion
was not legal.
My mother used a knitting needle and was
dead of sepsis within 24 hours. More than loss
of career or marriage, or disability, she lost her
life. And she was just one of thousands of girls
 25

and women who died in that terrible, wasteful

way.
I grew up without a mother and my family was
emotionally splintered and set adrift in many
ways by her death.
Email received November 23, 2019.
In the words of one Amicus: “Women will, as they al-
ways have, find ways to take control of their bodies. It’ll
just be more dangerous and more will die.” Email re-
ceived November 3, 2019.
V. AMICI’S STORIES ILLUSTRATE THE NECESSITY
OF THIRD-PARTY STANDING FOR ABORTION
PROVIDERS
By submitting this brief, Amici publicly share their
names and stories—at great personal risk and cost—in an
effort to assert, preserve, and secure the reproductive
rights that have enabled them to live and thrive as lawyers
and contributors to the economic and social life of this
country. In doing so, they stand alongside the partici-
pants in public abortion “speak-outs” before abortion was
decriminalized 16 and the signatories of an amicus brief
similar to this one that was submitted in Whole Woman’s
Health 17 (many of whom return as Amici here).
But it would be a mistake to misinterpret Amici’s will-
ingness to identify themselves as having had an abortion
as a sign that patients in the midst of seeking abortion
care could feasibly sue on their own behalf. To the con-
trary, Amici’s own stories illustrate the weight of the de-
cision and stress felt by so many seeking to terminate
16
See Greenhouse & Siegel 57, 64–65.
17
Amicus Br. of Janice Macavoy et al., Whole Woman’s Health v.
Hellerstedt, 136 S. Ct. 2292 (2016) (No. 15-274).
 26

pregnancies, whether those pregnancies were deeply un-

wanted or wanted. Amici’s stories also illustrate some of
the costs and risks to outing oneself as someone who had
an abortion, even for those who have professional degrees,
even for those intimately familiar with the legal system,
and even for such relatively limited purpose as a single
amicus brief.
One Amicus, who received an abortion at age 21 while
living at home and studying for the LSAT, wrote:
I read a quote once that said “No woman wants
an abortion like she wants an ice cream cone or
a Porsche. She wants an abortion like an ani-
mal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own
leg.” That [was] how it was. I was boxed in,
scared and lonely.
Email received November 25, 2019. Though this Amicus’s
feelings are not universal, like her, many Amici used the
words “scared,” “shocked,” “ashamed,” “panicked,” and
“desperate” to describe their feelings upon learning they
were unexpectedly pregnant.
Likewise, many of the Amici who terminated ad-
vanced, wanted pregnancies as a result of fetal abnormal-
ities also described feeling overwhelmed as they went
from specialist to specialist seeking other medical opin-
ions, knowing they had to make their decision and obtain
an abortion within the vanishingly short window of time in
which doing so would still be legal under state law.
But Respondent would add yet another burden for
pregnant women seeking abortions by requiring that they
become litigants in cases like this one. Respondent asks
the Court to depart from long-standing precedent and
practice that enables doctors, clinics, and other abortion
providers to sue on their patients’ behalf. In other words,
 27

Respondent would require that a patient-plaintiff initiate

legal proceedings—with all that entails, including finding
and retaining a lawyer and potentially engaging in inva-
sive civil discovery—nearly contemporaneously with
making the decision to terminate, and simultaneously
with trying to access medical care.
One Amicus, a litigator, reflected on the difficulty a pa-
tient-plaintiff might face through the lens of her own
story:
The day I found out I was pregnant, I had sta-
tistics class and then I had a shift at the campus
bar. I had 57 dollars in my bank account. And
I needed, immediately, to not be pregnant any-
more. My boyfriend borrowed money from his
parents—he told them it was for textbooks.
Remembering those days of my life, I am al-
most offended by the suggestion that I could
have been equipped at that time to act as a
plaintiff in an abortion case. I really, truly, ab-
solutely could not have. It took everything in
me to wake up and go to statistics and scrape
together enough money for the abortion and
not cry into customers’ drinks at work. Those
days were impossible enough already. So make
no mistake, a holding that third-party standing
is unavailable in abortion cases is a holding that
abortion cases will no longer be brought.
I was incapable of fighting for myself then. But
I passed statistics; I graduated; I went to law
school. I was able to do all of those things be-
cause other people were allowed to file lawsuits
on my behalf, and on behalf of all the other
 28

women who just could not do it themselves at

that time.
As an attorney, I know firsthand what litigation
entails—invasive document discovery, deposi-
tions and cross-examinations, a person’s entire
private life laid out before a court. Women
seeking abortions go through more than
enough.
Email received November 22, 2019.
These barriers do not necessarily disappear when one
graduates. As one former Circuit clerk who is now part-
ner at a prominent firm put it:
[A]t the time I was a second year associate and
dependent for advancement on what my sen-
iors thought of me, I would never have risked
“oversharing,” much less becoming a litigant in
an abortion fight. As this Court considers the
question of standing, it should realize how
many women are in vulnerable positions at the
time they need abortions—worried about and
dependent upon others’ judgment or living in
communities where there is open hostility to a
woman’s right to choose—and would find them-
selves too intimidated to litigate.
Also, in this internet age, what woman would
trust that she could proceed under a pseudo-
nym and not be unmasked? The passion and
vitriol of the anti-choice voices underscore the
lengths some would go to identify her; once
identified, it doesn’t take much effort to imag-
ine the unrelenting torrent of abuse she could
expect. It is simply too much to ask of any
woman.
 29

Email received November 16, 2019.

Even just by signing this single brief, Amici are expos-
ing themselves to possible vitriol, rejection, and recrimi-
nation from families, employers, social communities, and
strangers on the internet 18 who may vehemently disagree
with their choices.
One Amicus, who received her first birth control pre-
scription at the very same Planned Parenthood in front of
which she and her family regularly protested, predicted:
Telling my story and signing this brief will
likely cost me my relationship with my mother,
but I feel the need to speak out to protect the
rights of every other woman who deserves ac-
cess to this care. I am a licensed attorney
ONLY because I had access to a safe abortion.
. . . [M]y large family does not know I termi-
nated a pregnancy because my mother has al-
ways said she will disown any of us that termi-
nate a pregnancy or participate in a partner’s
pregnancy termination. If my mother sees my
name on this brief, it is likely the end of our re-
lationship . . . . It is also likely that a friend I’ve
known for nearly 30 years will also end our
friendship over my pregnancy termination. I
wouldn’t be surprised if there was more fallout
within my large extended Catholic family as
well. But, I cannot stay silent any more.
Email received October 28, 2019.

18
See Danielle Keats Citron, Cyber Civil Rights, 89 B.U. L. Rev.
61, 64–66 (2009) (describing the rise of internet hostility and har-
assment towards vulnerable groups, including women).
 30

Another Amicus, a professor and practicing attorney,

confided:
Identifying myself publicly brings me fear of
reprisal from my colleagues and my broader
community in South Carolina, many of whom
are deeply religious and against abortion. I sus-
pect that many would (and will) see me differ-
ently—as morally inferior—upon learning that
I have had an abortion. Many of my students
write passionately against abortion in their
class papers, so exposing myself also brings a
risk of backlash from them.
These fears contribute to a great anxiety about
my name being published on this list. At the
same time, I feel a sense of duty to identify my-
self and to clarify that abortions are something
that all women benefit from having access to.
Email received October 29, 2019.
Dozens of people who wanted to appear alongside
Amici were ultimately unable (many because they were
prevented by their employer) or unwilling to reveal their
names and professional affiliations as Amici have done.
Two anonymous Amici represent these and the count-
less other members of the legal profession who have had
abortions. One, a senior attorney with the Department of
Justice, joins the brief anonymously on behalf of herself
and all the other lawyers working in the highest echelons
of government who have had abortions. Another, a law
student at the very outset of her legal career who could
not be named because of uniquely acute safety concerns,
represents all the other current, past, and future mem-
bers of this profession for whom exposing themselves
would be too dangerous.
 31

For some Amici, coming forward has forced them to

expose an intimate sphere of their lives that they right-
fully expected would be shielded from the world’s scru-
tiny. For example, one Amicus had never before shared
her story, despite the fact that her father had been an
abortion provider and she herself has devoted her career
to reproductive rights advocacy. Email received October
29, 2019.
As another Amicus wrote, it is “awfully terrifying to
identify publicly and to share such a personal and private
story—one that can often be a great source of shame.
Even more so as a young Latinx professional establishing
herself in a field traced with conservative contours.”
Email received November 10, 2019. Another attorney de-
scribed her participation as “a price I do not want to pay,”
but will because “my daughter and her peers deserve the
same, if not better, bodily autonomy than I have enjoyed.”
Email received October 28, 2019.
And yet Respondent would ask much more of patients
seeking a termination. Indeed, there is hardly a better
way to guarantee that unconstitutional laws will go un-
challenged than to expect pregnant women to become lit-
igants as they make this most personal and private deci-
sion, locate a provider, make an appointment or set of ap-
pointments as required by local law, raise the necessary
funds to cover the procedure, and often race—perhaps out
of state—to exercise their reproductive choice consistent
with the labyrinthine applicable regulations.
* * *
The statutory provision at issue here, like the identical
provision struck down in Whole Woman’s Health, would
dramatically restrict women’s ability to exercise their
right to safe and legal abortions, and thus to participate
 32

equally in the life of the nation. Striking it down would

put Louisiana, and any state that might enact similar
laws, on notice that the rights to terminate a pregnancy,
to autonomy in decision-making, and to bodily integrity,
must be rights in fact and not just in theory.
Amici respectfully submit this brief in support of the
June Medical Petitioners because they know firsthand the
value of the rights under threat, and because they feel a
responsibility to raise their voices on behalf of those who
cannot.
CONCLUSION
For all the foregoing reasons and those stated in the
June Medical Petitioners’ briefs, the decision of the Fifth
Circuit should be reversed.

Respectfully submitted.

CLAUDIA HAMMERMAN
AUDRA J. SOLOWAY
ALEXIA D. KORBERG
TANYA S. MANNO MELINA MENEGUIN LAYERENZA
PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND, PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND,
WHARTON & GARRISON LLP WHARTON & GARRISON LLP
2001 K Street NW 1285 Avenue of the Americas
Washington, DC 20006 New York, NY 10019
(202) 223-7300 (212) 373-3000
chammerman@paulweiss.com

DECEMBER 2019
APPENDIX
 A1

APPENDIX: LIST OF AMICI—368 PEOPLE IN THE

LEGAL PROFESSION WHO HAVE EXERCISED THEIR
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO AN ABORTION

Michele Claudia Charanya

Coleman Mayes Hammerman Krishnaswami
Vice President, Partner, Paul, Americas
General Counsel Weiss, Rifkind, Advocacy Director,
& Secretary, Wharton & Amnesty
The New York Garrison LLP International USA
Public Library

Anonymous Anonymous
Senior Attorney with the J.D. Candidate from Texas
U.S. Department of Justice

Rosie Achorn-Rubenstein Astrid Marisela Ackerman

J.D. Candidate, New York Associate, Kramer Levin
University School of Law Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Leah Adams Risa J. Alberts

Director, CDO Former Commercial
Communications, Litigator
Programming,
& JD Employment;
Adjunct Professor of
Lawyering Skills,
University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law

Cathy Albisa Elizabeth Allen

Executive Director, Policy Director,
National Economic COOK Alliance
& Social Rights Initiative
 A2

Emma C. Alpert Janet Ammerman

Supervising Attorney, Retired,
Brooklyn Defender Services’ Former U.S. Department
Family Defense Practice of Justice Attorney

Angeline Andersen Jane Anderson

Staff Attorney, Attorney Advisor,
Criminal Practice, AEquitas
The Bronx Defenders

Justine Andronici Amy Arentowicz

Attorney and Consultant, Senior Vice President,
JA Law and Consulting Legal Development,
Brookfield Properties

Elizabeth Arndorfer Aimee Arrambide

Program Officer, David & Executive Director,
Lucile Packard Foundation NARAL Pro-Choice Texas

Brittany Arsiniega Margaret Aylward

Assistant Professor of IS Contracts
Politics and International & Budget Manager,
Affairs at Furman BakerHostetler
University and Of Counsel
at Wyche, P.A.

Melissa Badgett Rebecca Baehr

Partner, Associate Director,
WFBM, LLP Career Development,
Rutgers Law School

Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan Amy Barasch

President, Executive Director,
National Lawyers' Guild Her Justice
 A3

Louisa Barash Beth Barefoot

Partner, Davis Wright Senior Manager for Finance
Tremaine LLP and Administration, Center
for Law and Social Policy

Renee Baruch Patricia Bauman

Retired, President,
Former Assistant General Bauman Foundation
Counsel of Blyth, Inc.

Claudia Bernard Elana Bildner

Independent Consultant; Staff Attorney,
Retired Chief Circuit ACLU of Connecticut
Mediator of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Lisa Borden Rebecca Borden

LLM Student at the Senior Vice President,
Geneva Academy of CBS Corporation
International Humanitarian
Law and Human Rights;
Former Shareholder at
Large U.S. Law Firm

Tala Brewster Andrea Bridgeman

J.D. Candidate, Associate General Counsel,
Cornell Law School Freddie Mac

Nina Brodsky Edith Brous

Senior Associate General Nurse Attorney, Law Offices
Counsel, Mount Sinai of Edith Brous, Esq. PC
Health System

Mary W. Brown Yvonne L. Brown

Attorney at Law, Of Counsel, Gladstein,
Greenbow Corporation Reif & Meginniss, LLP
 A4

Rhonda Brownstein Miriam Buhl

Former Legal Director, Pro Bono Counsel,
Southern Poverty Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Law Center

Lily Bullitt Nadine L. Burg

J.D. Candidate, Attorney, Law Offices
George Washington of Nadine L. Burg
University Law School

Roberta J. Burnette Victoria N. Burnette

Principal, Attorney, Chasen
Burnette Law Firm Boscolo Injury Lawers

Heather Busby Gwynnae Byrd

Solo Practitioner Former Chief Counsel,
California State Senate

Aisra Cabana Emily Camin

Program Assistant at the Compliance Consultant,
Academy on Human Rights Trauma & Recovery Center
and Humanitarian Law,
American University
Washington College of Law

Janyll Canals Kelly Canary

Senior Staff Attorney, Misdemeanor Supervisor,
Advocates for Children Snohomish County
of New York Public Defenders

Cynthia Carr Tessa M. Carson

Deputy General Counsel, Associate,
Yale University Fox Rothschild LLP
 A5

Alicia Marie Ceccanese Claudia Center

Justice Defenders Legal Senior Staff Attorney,
Fellow, American Bar Disability Rights Program,
Association Center for ACLU
Human Rights

Renee Glover Chantler Rebecca Chapman

Principal, Associate,
Chantler Law Offices J.W. Carney & Associates

Avital Rosenberg Chatto Shoshana Y. Chazan

Associate General Counsel, Attorney,
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Axiom
Rhode Island

Courtney Frances Chenette Anna-Marie Chiwanga

Assistant Professor of J.D. Candidate,
Political Science and Gender Washington and Lee
& Women's Studies, Hollins University School of Law
University

Mary Ann Christian Jeanette Chu

Case Presenter, Oregon Associate,
Liquor Control Commission Yee & Associates

Monica A. Ciolfi Lorraine A. Clasquin

Senior Director of Policy, Co-founder and President,
The Fedcap Group, Inc. The KLE Foundation,
Austin, Texas

Emily Coale Mary Coffey

J.D. Candidate, Attorney,
George Washington Coffey & Nichols
University Law School
 A6

Phyllis Cohen Tracy Cole

Retired Partner, Partner,
Porter & Hedges BakerHostetler

Kristy Young Coleman Molly Coleman

Senior Associate, J.D. Candidate,
Goodwin Procter LLP Harvard Law School

Brenda Collier Lynn Conant

Attorney, CollierLaw Partner, Lynn's Law

MariAnn Connolly Donna Costa

Sole Proprietor, MariAnn Adjunct Professor of
Connolly, Esquire, LLC International Business
Ethics at ESCP Europe;
Former Executive
Vice President and
General Counsel of
Mitsubishi Chemical
Holdings America, Inc.

Jessica Costanzo Kelli L. Cover

General Counsel, Assistant Public Defender,
MK Enterprises Inc. Maryland Office of the
Public Defender

Jennifer R. Cowan Marcy Croft

Pro Bono Counsel and Attorney at Law,
Litigation Counsel, Maron Marvel Bradley
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Anderson & Tardy LLC

Cassidy R. Croghan Briana Cummings

Attorney, Civil Rights and Child
Cassidy R. Croghan, PLLC Welfare Attorney,
Branch Legal
 A7

Olivia Daniels Alexis Danzig

J.D. Candidate, Duke Writer, Brookdale Center
University School of Law for Healthy Aging,
Hunter College

Jennifer L. Darley Lydia Davenport

Family Law Attorney, J.D. Candidate, Georgetown
Ocala FL University Law Center

Merinda Davis Darianne De Leon

Associate, J.D. Candidate,
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, American University
Wharton & Garrison LLP Washington College of Law

Sarah Deer Ami Desai

Professor, University of Assistant City Attorney,
Kansas and Chief Justice for City of Houston
a Tribal Appellate Court

Rachel Deutsch Avani Dhillon

Supervising Attorney for Manager,
Worker Justice, Center for Ernst & Young
Popular Democracy

Andrea M. Diaz Sadie H. Diaz

Deputy Public Defender, Senior Staff Attorney,
Los Angeles County Sanctuary for Families
Public Defender

Jocelyn Dorland Deborah Dubroff

J.D. Candidate Certified Family
University of the Pacific, Law Specialist,
McGeorge School of Law Dubroff Family Law PC
 A8

Ilene Durst Lauren Dye

Associate Professor of Law, Assistant Defender,
Thomas Jefferson Saginaw Defenders Office
School of Law

Victoria L. Eastus Meredith Eilers

Visiting Professor of Law, Shareholder, Bernstein,
New York Law School Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A.

Dawn A. Ericksen Nancy S. Erickson

J.D. Candidate, Principal Attorney, Law
Rutgers Law School Offices of Nancy S. Erickson

Katherine Fallow Eli Feasley

Senior Staff Attorney, J.D. Candidate,
Knight First Amendment Yale Law School
Institute at Columbia
University

Kelsey Feehan Susan Fendell

Staff Attorney, Senior Attorney,
Civil Action Practice, Mental Health Legal
The Bronx Defenders Advisors Committee

Lynn Feng Elaine Fieldman

Senior Vice President Retired Attorney,
and Director of Legal Barris, Sott, Denn
Operations, L&L Holding & Driker, P.L.L.C.
Company, LLC

Lea Filippi Barbara Finamore

Member, Sedor Wendlandt Senior Strategic Director,
Evans & Filippi, LLC Asia, Natural Resources
Defense Council
 A9

Jeanne Finberg Julie C. Ford

Public Interest Attorney, Partner,
Solo Practitioner; Former Doll, Jansen & Ford
Administrative Law Judge

Damara J. Fredette Katherine Friedell

Assistant Public Defender, Of Counsel, Rosenthal
Warren County Public Thurman Lane LLC
Defenders’ Office

Allison Frisbee Elise C. Funke

Senior Corporate Counsel, Associate, Kramer Levin
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Kaitlin Fusco Brenda Gallardo

J.D. Candidate, J.D. Candidate,
American University Rutgers Law School
Washington College of Law

Kelly D. Garcia Kelly Geistler

Associate, Deputy City Clerk,
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, City of Rochester, MN
Wharton & Garrison LLP

DeNora M. Getachew Dorothy M. Gibbons-White

New York Executive Principal,
Director, Generation Citizen Dorothy M. Gibbons-White,
Esq., A Professional
Law Corporation

Nadia Gill Barbara S. Gillers

CEO, Adjunct Professor of Law,
Encompass Films New York University
School of Law
 A10

Stephanie Goecke Jana Gold

Attorney, Vice President and
Stephanie T. Goecke, PLLC Associate General Counsel,
Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Lesley Goldberg Jacquie Goldman

Retired, Associate,
Former Managing Director Goldman & Hellman
& Associate General Counsel,
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Emily Jane Goodman Hayley Gorenberg

Retired Justice, New York Legal Director,
State Supreme Court; Law New York Lawyers
Offices of Emily Jane for the Public Interest
Goodman

Sharlyn Grace Sara Gras

Executive Director, Chicago Associate Director of the Law
Community Bond Fund Library, David A. Clarke
School of Law, University of
the District of Columbia

Molly Greathead Sarah J. Green

Dorot Fellow, J.D. Candidate,
Alliance for Justice George Washington
University Law School

Ashley Gregory Bryn Grinnell-Lovejoy

Partner, Councilor, City of Syracuse
Kirkland & Ellis LLP Common Council

Kimberly Grover Bobi Haley

Attorney, Assistant Attorney, Atlanta
Kimberly A. Grover, PLLC Office of the Public Defender
 A11

Spencer Hall Rhiannon Hamam

Truancy Court Program Mitigation Specialist,
Manager, Sayra and Neil Office of Capital and
Meyerhoff Center for Forensic Writs
Families, Children, and the
Courts, University of
Baltimore School of Law

Diana Hamlet-Cox Jennie Han

Director, Millen White Associate, Osler, Hoskin &
Zelano & Branigan, PC Harcourt LLP

Lori Jo Hansel Kristine M. Hansen

Sole Practitioner Associate, Gilbert LLP

Sandra Hanshaw Burink Sarah B. Hechtman

Solo Practitioner, Of Counsel,
Hanshaw Burink PLC The Miller Law Group

Barbara Hedeen Carrie Kei Heim

Retired, Former Staff Former Clerk, U.S. Court of
Attorney, New Jersey Office Appeals for the First Circuit;
of the Public Defender, Former Associate at
Appellate Section Cravath, Swain & Moore and
Mintz Levin

Sia Henry Allyson Himelfarb

Senior Program Associate, Senior Associate, Arnold &
National Prison Rape Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Elimination Act
Resource Center
 A12

Rachel Hochhauser Amelia J. Hochman

Consultant; Litigation Associate,
Former Assistant District Olshane Frome
Attorney, Manhattan Wolosky LLP
District Attorney’s Office

Susan Katz Hoffman Jessica A. Horani

Principal, Senior Trial Attorney,
Justican Mediation, LLC Homicide & Major Case
Defense Unit, New York
County Defender Services

Heidi Hotz Amy Hsieh

Partner, Deputy Director,
H&H LawWorks, LLC Anti-Trafficking Initiative,
Sanctuary for Families

Emily H. Huang Priscilla Huang

J.D. Candidate, University Senior Attorney, National
of Michigan Law School Health Law Program

Kelley Huber Heather Hughes

J.D. Candidate, Suffolk Vice President,
University Law School Engagement Management,
Aon Cyber Solutions

Katherine C. Hughes Paula S. Hughes

Pro Bono Attorney, Regulatory Consultant Prin,
Cleary Gottlieb Steen Ohio Power Company
& Hamilton LLP
 A13

Deena R. Hurwitz Susie Hwang

Independent Consultant; Pro Bono Attorney;
Former International Former Litigation Associate
Human Rights Law and Federal District Court
Professor at University of Judicial Clerk
Virginia School of Law

Andrea L. Irwin Betty Jane Jacobs

Executive Director, Partner,
Mabel Wadsworth Center Litman & Jacobs

Sophia Jayanty Brianna Jones Rich

Associate Attorney, J.D. Candidate, University
Earthjustice of Michigan Law School

Megan G. Jones Shivana Jorawar

J.D. Candidate, Co-Director,
Harvard Law School Jahajee Sisters

Sara A. Juster Ruth Kalbitzer

Associate General Counsel Attorney at Law, Wacks
& Privacy Officer, DeBona Beilin and Weber
Priva Health, LLC

Minouche Kandel Debra S. Kanoff

Senior Staff Attorney, Retired, Former Deputy
LGBTQ, Gender, City Attorney for the
and Reproductive Justice City of Santa Monica
Project, ACLU of
Southern California
 A14

Corene Kendrick Julie Ketover

Staff Attorney, Executive Coach, Julie
Prison Law Office Ketover Coaching LLC;
Former Associate and
Director of Knowledge
Management at Dechert LLP

Margaret Klaw Jasleen Kohli

Partner, Director, Critical Race
Berner Klaw & Watson LLP Studies Program,
UCLA School of Law

Olympias Iliana Konidaris Julie Graves Krishnaswami

Attorney, Head of Research
Konidaris Law Instruction & Lecturer
in Legal Research, Lillian
Goldman Law Library at
Yale Law School

Lisa C. Lambert Kristin O. Landis

Attorney at Law and Civil Chief of Staff and Litigation
Rights Litigator, Law Offices Coordinator, Whole
of Lisa C. Lambert Woman’s Health/Alliance

Danielle Lang Aimee LaTourette

Co-Director of the Associate, Schulten Ward
Voting Rights & Turner & Weiss LLP
Redistricting Program,
Campaign Legal Center

Sylvia Law Letitia (Tish) Lee

Elizabeth K. Dollard Managing Attorney,
Professor of Law, Medicine Washtenaw County Office
and Psychiatry, Emerita, of Legal Services of
New York University South Central Michigan
School of Law
 A15

Dorchen A. Leidholdt Shannon Leong

Director, Sanctuary for Product Counsel,
Families, Center for Battered Google
Women's Legal Services

Maroussia Lévesque Elaine G. Levine

Attorney and Partner,
LL.M. Candidate, Kwartin & Levine, LLP
Harvard Law School

Jan P. Levine Noreena S. Lewis

Partner, Community Pediatrics and
Pepper Hamilton LLP Advocacy Program
Coordinator at the Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia

Judith Liben Jacqueline Libster

Senior Staff Attorney, Privacy and eDiscovery
Massachusetts Law Counsel, New York City
Reform Institute Department of Education

Star Lightner Andrea Loera

Senior Counsel, J.D. Candidate,
Miller Starr Regalia Harvard Law School

Nicole Lohse Sara D. Longley

Associate Attorney, Law Attorney,
Offices of Kaplan & Gekht Longley Law PLLC

Gail Lopez-Henriquez Rhani Lott

Retired Shareholder of Mid- Adjunct Faculty Member,
Sized Firm in Pennsylvania Emory University
School of Law
 A16

Julie G. Lowenberg Kimberly Lutes-Koths

Retired from Private Deputy Public Defender,
Practice in Dallas, Texas San Francisco Public
Defender’s Office

Janice Mac Avoy Ilysa M. Magnus

Partner, Fried, Frank, Attorney, Law Offices of
Harris, Shriver & Ilysa M. Magnus, PC
Jacobson LLP

Jennifer N. Mahan Rachael R. Shapiro Majka

If/When/How Reproductive Author and Legal Scholar
Justice Fellow, Law and
Policy Analyst, SPARK
Reproductive Justice NOW

Deborah Malamud Leslie Malkin

AnBryce Professor of Law, Community and Program
New York University Education Manager,
School of Law New Jersey Coalition to
End Domestic Violence

Katharine L. Malone Sara L. Mandelbaum

Associate, Associate,
Troutman Sanders, LLP Akerman LLP

Limor Robinson Mann Nora Mann

Chief Oral Care Marketing Retired, Former Assistant
Counsel, Global, Colgate- Attorney General,
Palmolive Company Deputy Chief Charities
Division; Former Director
Determination of Need,
Massachusetts Department
of Public Health
 A17

Elizabeth H. Marcon J. Kathleen Marcus

Associate, Florio Perrucci Regulatory Counsel,
Steinhardt & Cappelli LLC DOCS Education

Courtney J. Martin Katie Rose Martin

Attorney, Law Office of Solo Practitioner
Courtney J. Martin

Chris Ann Maxwell Emma Mayberry

Solo Practitioner, Former JD-MBA Candidate at
Senior Vice-President, Legal Northwestern University
Affairs at 20th Century Fox, Pritzker School of Law and
Fox Searchlight Pictures Kellogg School of
Management

Lisa Mazzie Sarah McFadden

Professor of Legal Writing, Paralegal,
Marquette University Law Elmer and Brunot, PC
School

Natasha McFarland Shelley K. McIntyre

Senior Associate, Retired Senior Assistant
Ernst & Young Attorney General, Oregon
Department of Justice

Mandi McKinley J.E. McNeil

Staff Attorney, Attorney-at-Law,
Domestic Violence McNeil & Ricks, PC
Advocacy Organization in
the State of Colorado

Amelia J. Meier Cristina Mendez

Attorney, Los Angeles J.D. Candidate,
Dependency Lawyers, Inc. UC Berkeley School of Law
 A18

Michelle Mercer Sherry Merfish

Philanthropist and Former Senior Development
Non-Profit Board Member Staff, EMILY’s List
of Immigrant Legal
Resource Center, Stanford
University’s Clayman
Institute for Gender
Research, Women
Donors Network

Three Merians Kathleen Marie Metcalfe

Attorney, Choices Women’s Managing Attorney of
Medical Center Special Education,
Kershenbaum & Raffaele

Carlin Meyer Alexis Miller

Professor Emeritus, Stay-at-Home Mom,
New York Law School Former Attorney at Paley
Rothman, and Former
Maryland Court of
Appeals Clerk

Ezera Miller-Walfish Katherine Mirassou

J.D. Candidate, J.D. Candidate, Santa Clara
UC Davis School of Law University School of Law

Jacquelyn M. Mohr Camila Mojica

Associate, J.D. Candidate,
Newmeyer & Dillion LLP UC Davis School of Law
 A19

Kate Morris Jill Morrison

Associate, Spertus, Landes & Executive Director,
Umhofer, LLP Women’s Law & Public
Policy Fellowship Program
and Visiting Professor of
Law, Georgetown
University Law Center

Megan Kathleen Mulay Emily R.D. Murphy

Assistant State’s Attorney, Associate Professor of Law,
Cook County State’s UC Hastings College
Attorney’s Office of the Law

Malvina Nathanson Roxanne Newman

Sole Practitioner, Malvina Legal Aid Attorney
Nathanson Law Office in the State of Louisiana

Justine K. Nielsen Shirim Nothenberg

Partner, Procopio, Cory, Senior Appellate Attorney,
Hargreaves & Savitch LLP Lawyers for Children

Kelly Novak Jennifer L. Nye

J.D. Candidate, Lecturer in Law and
CUNY School of Law Social Justice, History
Department, University of
Massachusetts Amherst

Judith R.T. O’Kelley Amy Oppenheimer

Chief Program Officer, Law Offices of Amy
National LGBT Bar Oppenheimer, Retired
Association and Foundation Administrative Law Judge,
State of California

Susan Orlansky Laura Paley

Of Counsel, Court Attorney
Reeves Amodio LLC
 A20

Erin Panichkul Lydia Parker

Student Organizing J.D. Candidate,
Coordinator, University of Virginia
If/When/How: Lawyering School of Law
for Reproductive Justice

Pamela Parker Bonnie Pastor

Founder and Managing Retired, Former Attorney
Attorney, Parker Counsel and Counselor at Law,
Legal Services Law Office of Bonnie Pastor

Melissa Patterer Sarah Paule

Staff Counsel, Senior Staff Attorney,
Windhaven Insurance Children’s Law Center

Jodi Peikoff Zoraima Pelaez

Partner, J.D. Candidate, University of
Peikoff Mahan, P.C. Texas School of Law

Gleny Maria Peña Amairis Peña-Chavez

Supervisor of Court Actions, Deputy Director, Brooklyn
Lemle & Wolff, Inc. Family Justice Center

Sheri Pewitt Roxane Picard

Attorney, Associate,
Pewitt Law PLLC White & Case LLP

Claudia Polsky Veronica Portillo-Heap

Assistant Clinical Professor J.D. Candidate, University
of Law and Director, of Michigan Law School
Environmental Law Clinic,
UC Berkeley School of Law

Jessica P. Quiggle Akila Radhakrishnan

Maritime Personal Injury President,
Attorney, Billera Law Global Justice Center
 A21

Cathy Radner Victoria S. Raikes

Retired General Counsel, Partner,
St. Joseph’s Mercy Kirkham Raikes PLLC
Oakland Hospital

Meredith L. Reeves Luba Reife

Trial Attorney, Committee Deputy Director,
for Public Counsel Services Family Law Project,
Sanctuary for Families

Carmen Maria Rey Sarah E. Ricks

Co-Director of the Safe Distinguished Clinical
Harbor Clinic and Assistant Professor of Law, Rutgers
Professor of Clinical Law, Law School–Camden
Brooklyn Law School

Deborah Rimmler Christine Rivera

Counsel, Law Graduate,
Dentons US LLP Criminal Defense Practice,
The Bronx Defenders

Andrea Rivers Elena Roberts

J.D. Candidate, Former Staff Attorney,
American University The Legal Aid Society
Washington College of Law of New York

Emily J. Roberts Karen Robson

J.D. Candidate, Partner,
UC Berkeley School of Law Pryor Cashman LLP

Gina M. Roccanova Judith Rosenstein

Principal, Retired, Former Federal
Jackson Lewis, PC and State Criminal
Defense Attorney
 A22

Alice Rosenthal Dianne Rosky

Senior Staff Attorney, Founder and Principal,
Medical-Legal Partnership Rosky Legal Education LLC
Project, Center for
Children's Advocacy

Laure Ruth Melissa Rutman

Legal Director, Associate,
The Women’s Law Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Center of Maryland, Inc.

Victoria Ruttenberg Kelsey Ryland

Consultant, Retired Director of Federal
from Government Strategies, All* Above All
and Private Practice

Laurie Salame Jaye Samuels

Retired, Former Legal Managing Associate,
Aid Attorney in the Infinity Law Group
State of Massachusetts

Shary Sanchez jasmine Sankofa

Legal Services Attorney Aryeh Neier Fellow
in the State of New York (2017-2019) at Human
Rights Watch and the ACLU

Nicole Santora Robin Schachter

Law Clerk–Not Yet Director of Corporate
Admitted, Gibson, Relations, Gamoran Legal
Dunn & Crutcher LLP Consulting; Former Partner
at Ryan, Swanson &
Cleveland, PLLC
 A23

Magda Schaler-Haynes Jane Schelberg

Senior Advisor, Senior Counsel,
New Jersey Division of Henry Ford Health System
Consumer Affairs

Carol A. Schrager Janie F. Schulman

Principal Attorney, Law Co-Chair, Employment
Offices of Carol A. Schrager and Labor Group, Morrison
& Foerster LLP

Bianca Victoria Scott Jacqueline Seitz

Policy Counsel, Staff Attorney,
New York City Government Legal Action Center

Shannon R. Selden Marcia Settel

Partner, Retired Administrative
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Law Judge in the
State of California

Adelle Settle Meg Simchuk

Senior Attorney-Analyst, J.D. Candidate, University of
U.S. Government Agency Minnesota Law School

Ames Simmons Elise E. Singer

Policy Director, Of Counsel, Fine, Kaplan
Equality North Carolina and Black, R.P.C.

Rohini Singh Kerry Slade

Staff Attorney, School Assistant Professor,
Justice Project, Advocates for Temple University
Children of New York
 A24

Mica Sloan Courtney Smith

Staff Attorney, Board of Directors,
Capital Post Conviction Planned Parenthood of New
Project of Louisiana York City, and Consultant in
the Health Care Industry

Dawn R. Smith Lindsay Vance Smith

Partner, Attorney,
Smith & Lake Tharrington Smith, LLP

Shelby Smith Olivia Sohmer

J.D. Candidate, Georgetown Court Attorney,
University Law Center Criminal Court, New York

Jane Sovern Molly Stark

Member, Bond, Associate General Counsel,
Schoeneck & King, PLLC Rainforest Alliance

Tracy L. Steedman Robin Steinberg

Litigation Chair and CEO, The Bail Project;
Member, Adelberg Rudow Founder and Former
Executive Director of The
Bronx Defenders and Still
She Rises; Senior Fellow at
UCLA Law School

Nomi Maya Stolzenberg Adrienne Stuart

Professor of Law, Disability Rights Activist
USC Gould School of Law and Former Executive
Director at a Washington
State Non-Profit
Organization

Josie Sustaire Katya Sverdlov

Associate Attorney, DC Law, Solo Practitioner,
McKinney & Sperry, PC Sverdlov Law PLLC
 A25

Christina Taber-Kewene Fahi Takesh Hallin

College Admissions Solo Practitioner
Specialist and Former
Senior Associate in
International Commercial
Litigation

Hon. Gretchen W. Carmen Tellez

Taylor (Ret.)
Law Graduate,
Private Judge, Center for Family
Neutral and Mediator at Representation
Signature Resolution

Ann F. Thomas Michelle M. Thomas

Otto L. Walter Senior Deputy Public
Distinguished Professor Advocate, Minnehaha
of Tax Law and Director of County Public Advocate
the Graduate Tax Program,
New York Law School

Carol E. Tracy Allison Tringas

Executive Director, Attorney,
Women’s Law Project Tringas Law

Jennifer Tucker Joy Tull

Research Contracts Officer, Assistant Public Defender,
Sr., University of Kansas Law Office of the Cook
County Public Defender

Lei Udell Andrea Vacca

Former Attorney at Attorney,
Sheppard, Mullin, Vacca Family Law Group
Richter & Hampton LLP
 A26

Tamryn Valenzuela Rita Vallet

J.D. Candidate and Legal Retired, Former
Secretary, Office of the Independent Practitioner
Public Defender, New Jersey

Bethany Van Kampen Jaya Vasandani

Senior Policy Advisor, Ipas, Co-Director,
and Former Congressional Women & Justice Project
Legislative Fellow for
Senator Barbara Boxer (CA)

Olivia Volpe Eve Wachtell

J.D. Candidate, Chief Operating Officer
Northwestern Pritzker & General Counsel,
School of Law Altitude Learning

Carlia Waite Lauren Wake

Attorney, J.D. Candidate, Loyola Law
Standish Law Group School Los Angeles

Danielle K. Wakefield Rebecca Waldemar

Solo Practitioner, Supervising Attorney,
Wakefield Law Firm Central Pennsylvania Law
Clinics, Widener University
Commonwealth Law School

Emily Waltz Adrienne M. Ward

J.D. Candidate, Partner,
Loyola University Chicago Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP
School of Law
 A27

W. Ann Warner Katie L. Watson

Retired, Former Associate Professor of
Assistant Dean of Medical Social Sciences,
the University of Detroit Medical Education, and
School of Law and Attorney Obstetrics & Gynecology and
for the State of Michigan Faculty, Medical
Humanities & Bioethics
Graduate Program,
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine

Lydia C. Watts Eleanor K. Wedum

Executive Director Associate Attorney,
at Rebuild, Overcome and The Meyer Law Office, P.C.
Rise (ROAR) Center at
University of Maryland
Baltimore, University of
Maryland Francis King
Carey School of Law

Diane Weinroth Anne Weisberg

Special Counsel, Women’s Initiative Director,
Children’s Law Center, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
and Clinical Supervisor, Wharton & Garrison LLP
American University
Washington College of Law

Stefanie Weiss Laura M. Wellen

Teacher, NYC Department of Associate,
Education and Pro Bono Thrasher Dinsmore & Dolan
Attorney, Catholic Charities
Immigration Legal Services

Heidi A. Wendel Denise Wiktor

Attorney, Law Offices of Attorney at Law,
Heidi A. Wendel PLLC Law Office of Denise Wiktor
 A28

Sara C. Wilkinson Caroline Williamson

Former President of Law Clerk–Not Yet
Maryland NOW, Admitted, Paul, Weiss,
Former Legal Aid Rifkind, Wharton &
Attorney in Maryland Garrison LLP

Rebecca Erin D. Wolf

Winkelstein DuChez,
Attorney, Desmarais Law
Litigation Attorney, Group, PLLC
Jasinski, PC; Former New
Jersey Supreme Court Clerk

Brenda Wright Alyssa Yarbrough

Senior Advisor for Legal Attorney,
Strategies, Demos Warner Law Firm

Robin Yeamans Dinah Yessne

Family and Appellate Law Retired, Former Assistant
Specialist, Law Office of Attorney General for the
Robin Yeamans State of Vermont

Rachel Yidana Jasmine Yunus

Law Clerk–Not Yet J.D. Candidate,
Admitted, Paul, Weiss, American University
Rifkind, Wharton & Washington College of Law
Garrison LLP

Dawn L. Yuster Anna Zaret

Director of the School Attorney and PhD
Justice Project, Advocates for Student in Jurisprudence
Children of New York and Social Policy, UC
Berkeley School of Law
 A29

Cat Zavis Geraldine D. Zidow

Executive Director, Assistant Prosecutor,
Network of Spiritual Office of the Prosecutor of
Progressives; Former Camden County, New Jersey
Collaborative Divorce
Professional and Mediator

Jana Zimmer
Attorney, Government
Relations Consulting