2018

   Roberta Kaplan 
Founding Partner, Kaplan & Company LLP

2017

2016

Vanita Gupta
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and
Head of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil
Rights Division 

2015

2014

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   Anita F. Hill
Brandeis University;
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll

2013

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 Judith Resnik
Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School

2012

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Judge Nancy Gertner
Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School

2011

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Jamie Gorelick
Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

2010

 
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Chief Judge Judith Kaye
Court of Appeals, State of New York

2009

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Marcia Greenberger
National Women's Law Center

2008

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Elena Kagan
Dean, Harvard Law School

2007

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Karen J. Mathis
President, American Bar Association

2006

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Judge Katharine S. Hayden
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey

2005

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Judge Ann Claire Williams
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

2004

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Presiding Justice Leah Ward Sears
Georgia Supreme Court

2003

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Senator Sheila Kuehl
California State Senate

2002

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
U.S. Supreme Court

2001

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 Chief Justice Mary Ann McMorrow
Illinois Supreme Court

2000

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Judge Sonia Sotomayor
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit 

1999

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Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

1998

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Judge Ilana Diamond Rovner
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

1997

 
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Judge Bernice Bouie Donald
U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee

1996

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Martha Barnett
Tallahassee, Florida