100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage—Where Do We Go from Here? Guest Speaker Judge Nicole Chollett Bershon When: Monday, November 23, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Register:here
When the 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920—after decades of passionate struggles—American women hoped that suffrage would give them equality with men. But that victory did not deliver voting rights to all women. African American and Asian American women, as well as Latinas and Native Americans, did not attain the franchise until decades later, and widespread forms of discrimination against women remain to this day. The Equal Rights Amendment, a “no brainer” to women activists, failed to attain passage, and many minority women (and men) negotiated a tortured path to voting in their states.
On Monday, November 23, Judge Nicole Chollett Bershon of the Los Angeles Superior Court (where she handles a felony trial calendar) will discuss what has been achieved in the past 100 years. The current vice-chair of the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Diversity Committee, she has served on several of the Court’s key committees and as a president of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles. A graduate of Princeton University and UCLA Law School, she is the incoming president of the UCLA Law Alumni Association.
