now more than half of lawyers in the country are women. but there were only 23. she was working in a legal aid clinic. when she got out of law school, she didn't take one of those law firm jobs, she went to work for the children's defense fund. in the early '70s, she went to georgia and alabama to look into the conditions of poor foster kids and african-american 14 and 15 year olds who were in jail as adults to get them out of jail and get them decent treatment. when she was a kid, when she came home to arkansas to marry me, she opened the first legal aid clinic we ever had at the university. jimmy carter put her on the legal services corporation board, and at 29 the other board members elected her as the chairman. ever to serve in that job.erson- she started an advocacy group
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