aclp 4 Judith McConnell transcript

Judith McConnell was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, where her father was a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman. She was a tomboy, and she wanted to be a cowboy or cowgirl, wearing her diamond-studded holster to church. She went to Berkeley for college and law school, and when she graduated, she found it difficult to find a job as a lawyer in the private sector because of her gender. She eventually found a job in the public sector and went on to become a successful lawyer. She was inspired to become a judge after seeing Governor Jerry Brown appoint women to the bench.