A Particularly Exasperating Women's History Month
March is upon us, and thus the annual celebration of "Women's History Month." On March 8th, designated "International Women's Day," my...
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Molly Kokesh
- Dec 23, 2022
- 7 min
In Memoriam: Judge Zita Weinshienk’s Legacy
Judge Zita Leeson Weinshienk passed away peacefully in her home on October 7, 2022, at age 89. Many descriptions of Weinshienk begin with...
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Gina L. Glockner
- May 25, 2022
- 4 min
Final President's Letter: Gina L. Glockner
Women have been building community and doing extraordinary – and often unpaid and unrecognized – work for centuries. We have consistently...
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Carime Lee
- May 9, 2022
- 6 min
Celebrating Judge Theresa Spahn the 2022 Mary Lathrop Trailblazer Award Honoree
The original version of this blog post was written by the Hon. Melody Mirbaba and published in The 1891 Blog on October 30, 2020, when...
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Laura Ratcliffe
- Mar 11, 2022
- 4 min
Why A Women's Bar? (Revisited)
In a 1978 edition of The Advocate (the CWBA newsletter), the CWBA's first president, Natalie Ellwood wrote a piece entitled Why A Women's...
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Isabel J. Broer
- Mar 2, 2022
- 3 min
DU Black Law Students' Association Celebrates Black History and Black Women
On February 7, 2022, the DU Sturm College of Law’s Black Law Students’ Association (BLSA) marked the beginning of Black History Month by...
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Jenny Carman and Jennifer Erickson Baak
- Mar 12, 2021
- 6 min
Celebrating Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“We are at last beginning to relegate to history books the days of the token, one-at-a-time woman.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg U.S. Supreme...
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Jenny Carman
- Dec 23, 2020
- 5 min
Suffrage: A Story of Perseverance
August 1920 saw the greatest expansion of voting rights in American history. The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment established...
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Jessica A. Volz
- Dec 4, 2019
- 13 min
From Barred to Bar: The Unsinkable Rise of the Colorado Women’s Bar Association
It’s December in Denver, and the halls of the Crawford Hill Mansion are dressed in their finest to welcome members of the Colorado...
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Doris Truhlar
- May 23, 2019
- 4 min
The CWBA Meets Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Not long after I became Colorado Women’s Bar Association (CWBA) president, I was told that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg...
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Miranda Hawkins
- Apr 16, 2019
- 1 min
CWBA 40th Anniversary Virtual Time Capsule
Let’s celebrate another CWBA milestone! June 1, 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the filing of the CWBA’s Articles of Incorporation...
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