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Celebrating Women Veterans Day
After celebrating all veterans on Veterans Day, we first take a moment to explore the origins and continued expansion of Women Veterans...

Anna Sturges
Nov 15, 20232 min read
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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...

Laura Ratcliffe
Mar 17, 20233 min read
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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...

Molly Kokesh
Dec 23, 20227 min read
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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...

Gina L. Glockner
May 25, 20224 min read
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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...

Carime Lee
May 9, 20226 min read
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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...

Laura Ratcliffe
Mar 11, 20224 min read
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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...

Isabel J. Broer
Mar 2, 20223 min read
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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...
Jenny Carman and Jennifer Erickson Baak
Mar 12, 20216 min read
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Suffrage: A Story of Perseverance
August 1920 saw the greatest expansion of voting rights in American history. The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment established...

Jenny Carman
Dec 23, 20205 min read
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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...

Jessica A. Volz
Dec 4, 201913 min read
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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...

Doris Truhlar
May 23, 20194 min read
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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...

Miranda Hawkins
Apr 16, 20191 min read
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