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Women in leadership pave the way for future generations Photo by Maddie Monroe | The State News "Recognize where we come from and where we still have to go and then (recognize) that we have to be inclusive in the movement of women's rights ... and make sure that we hold each other up as women," Black Student Alliance President Sharron Reed-Davis said. March is Women's History Month, ...
White House Archives Deborah Rhode at the White House's 2011 Champions of Change event. View full image At the age of 31, Deborah Rhode ’74, ’77JD, became the first female Yale College graduate elected to the Yale Board of Trustees. She and her husband, Ralph Cavanagh ’74, ’77JD, arrived at the introductory dinner and found their place cards on the table. Deborah’s card read “Deborah Rhode.” Ralph’s read “Ralph Rhode.” It was 1983, and back then, it was almost a reflex to assume that a wife would take her husband’s surname. Ralph recalls what happened next: Deborah h...
Deborah Rhode, Stanford law professor and authority on legal ethics, dies at 68 Harrison Smith © Stanford Law School Deborah L. Rhode became only the second woman to receive tenure at Stanford Law School, where she taught since 1979. As a law student at Yale in the mid-1970s, Deborah L. Rhode worked at a legal aid clinic, helping clients who were unable to afford lawyers for their divorce cases. Local lawyers were charging too much, she recalled — $1,000 just to fill out paperwork — so she and her colleagues created a “how to” kit for clients interested in represe...
Deborah Rhode and her dog Stanton. Photo: TIMOTHY ARCHIBALD/Stanford Magazine on January 11, 2021 Law professor Deborah Rhode, a renowned legal ethics and gender law and policy scholar, died on Friday at 68. To wrap Rhode’s countless board positions, awards, publications, and accomplishments otherwise is an impossible task. Over the course of her legal career, Rhode authored 30 books on gender, ethics and public policy and became the most cited scholar in legal ethics. “I don’t know of another legal academic career that remotely matches it,” Ralph Cavanagh, Rhode’s husband, told T...
Skip to main content Stanford law Professor Deborah Rhode, leading voice on legal ethics and women's rights, dies at 68 FacebookTwitterEmail Stanford Law Professor Deborah Rhode, one of the nation’s leading scholars on legal ethics, has died at 68.Stanford Law School Stanford Law School Professor Deborah Rhode, one of the nation’s leading scholars on legal ethics, has died at age 68. Rhode had taught at Stanford since 1979, when she became the third female law professor in the school’s history. She was the founder of the school’s Center on Ethics and served as president of the Associa...