The highest award recognizing women in the legal profession, the Arabella Babb Mansfield Award is presented in recognition of lifetime professional achievement, positive influence, and valuable contribution to women in the law and in society. The award is the oldest award given by the National Association of Women Lawyers and is named after the first woman admitted to a state bar in the United States. In special circumstances, this award can be presented to an organization.
Rhonda Powell
Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Buzzfeed
Cheryl Thomas
Founder & Executive Director,
Global Rights for Women
ERA Coalition
ACLU Women's Rights Project
Roberta Kaplan
Founding Partner,
Kaplan & Company LLP
Hon. Amy Klobuchar
U.S. Senator, Minnesota
Vanita Gupta
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and
Head of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil
Rights Division
Mary Jo White
Chair,
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Anita F. Hill
Brandeis University
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
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Judith Resnik
Arthur Liman Professor of Law,
Yale Law School
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Judge Nancy Gertner
Professor of Practice,
Harvard Law School
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Jamie Gorelick
Partner,
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Chief Judge Judith Kaye
Court of Appeals, State of New York
Marcia Greenberger
National Women's Law Center
Elena Kagan
Dean, Harvard Law School
Karen J. Mathis
President, American Bar Association
Judge Katharine S. Hayden
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
Judge Ann Claire Williams
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
Presiding Justice Leah Ward Sears
Georgia Supreme Court
Senator Sheila Kuehl
California State Senate
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
U.S. Supreme Court
Chief Justice Mary Ann McMorrow
Illinois Supreme Court
Judge Sonia Sotomayor
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Judge Ilana Diamond Rovner
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
Judge Bernice Bouie Donald
U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee
Martha Barnett
Tallahassee, Florida