Shortlisted Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court / Hannah Brenner Johnson, Renee Knake Jefferson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Hannah Brenner, Author.

Jefferson, Renee Knake, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

tokenism.

strategies.

Storytelling.

Sexual harassment.

self-shortlisting.

selected.

relationships.

Racism.

narrative.

Motherhood.

mentors.

Law--Study and teaching.

Law.

law;leadership;lawyers;judiciary;inequality;solutions;Mildred Lillie;bias;discrimination;diversity;research methods;suffrage;women's rights;19th amendment;feminism;Declaration of Sentiments;Florence Allen;Franklin Delano Roosevelt;Harry S. Truman;Dwight D. Eisenhower;U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit;judicial appointment;Soia Mentschikoff;Sylvia Bacon;Carla Hills;John F. Kennedy;Richard Nixon;Gerald Ford;Amalya Lyle Kearse;Joan Dempsey Klein;Susie M. Sharp;Cornelia Kennedy;Cornelia Kennedy;Sandra Day O'Connor;Ronald Reagan;Cynthia Hall;Edith Jones;Pamela Rymer;Ruth Bader Ginsberg;Harriet Miers;Sonia Sotomayor;Elena Kagan;George H.W. Bush.

Judicial opinions.

intersectionality.

international.

essentialism.

Equality.

double binds.

Contradiction.

Performance.

collaboration.

Child care.

chief justice.

appearance.

Justice, Administration of.

William Jefferson Clinton.

George W. Bush.

Barack Obama.

"as.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered--but not selected--for the US Supreme CourtIn 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court after centuries of male appointments, a watershed moment in the long struggle for gender equality. Yet few know about the remarkable women considered in the decades before her triumph.Shortlisted tells the overlooked stories of nine extraordinary women--a cohort large enough to seat the entire Supreme Court--who appeared on presidential lists dating back to the 1930s. Florence Allen, the first female judge on the highest court in Ohio, was named repeatedly in those early years. Eight more followed, including Amalya Kearse, a federal appellate judge who was the first African American woman viewed as a potential Supreme Court nominee. Award-winning scholars Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson cleverly weave together long-forgotten materials from presidential libraries and private archives to reveal the professional and personal lives of these accomplished women.In addition to filling a notable historical gap, the book exposes the tragedy of the shortlist. Listing and bypassing qualified female candidates creates a false appearance of diversity that preserves the status quo, a fate all too familiar for women, especially minorities. Shortlisted offers a roadmap to combat enduring bias and discrimination. It is a must-read for those seeking positions of power as well as for the powerful who select them in the legal profession and beyond.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Preface

Introduction

1. The First Shortlisted Woman

2. The Shortlists before the First Nominee

3. From Shortlisted to Selected

4. The Shortlists following O’Connor: A Long Way from Nine

5. After Shortlisted, Tokenism

6. Challenging Double Binds and Unifying Double Lives

7. No Longer Zero

8. Surmounting the Shortlist

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Appendix 1. Our Methodology for Determining Supreme Court Shortlists

Appendix 2. A Note on Historical Research

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

About the Authors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-1609-4

OCLC:

1151184450