Policy Matters: Making the Case for Women Judges by Sally Kenney

Tulane Professor Sally Kenney will speak on her forthcoming book, Gender and Justice: Why Women Judges Really Matter.

Sally J. Kenney has been with Tulane University since 2010. Prior to joining Tulane, she served from 1995-2009 on the faculty at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, where she also directed the Center on Women and Public Policy. From 1989-1995, she held a joint appointment in Political Science, Women's Studies, and Law at the University of Iowa.

Professor Kenney is a founder of the Infinity Project, which works to increase the number of women on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. She also served on the Minnesota Supreme Court’s Gender Fairness Implementation Committee, is the co-founder and co-chair of the Law & Society’s Collaborative Research Network on Women Judges, and runs a blog on gender and judging. An expert on women and law, Dr. Kenney has served on the judicial-academic network of the National Association of Women Judges. In addition, she has served on the boards of the court monitoring organization Watch, the Minnesota Women’s Campaign Fund, and the University of Minnesota Press.

She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, a B.A. and M.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Magdalen College, Oxford, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Iowa.

University of Iowa Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, will join Ms. Kenney and discuss a few points in addition to leading a discussion, as well.

This event is free and open to the public. In conjunction with the Public Policy Center, the UI History Department, and UI Political Science Department, the Iowa Women's Archives, UI Libraries, and also Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies and UI College of Law are co-sponsors of this event.

*Disclaimer: Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact The Public Policy Center at (319)335-6800 or e-mail peter-damiano@uiowa.edu