Prima femeie preşedinte al ABA

Roberta Cooper Ramo, the first woman elected president of the American Bar Association (ABA), was a pathbreaker in many ways. Ramo was also the first ABA president with a technological bent, proselytizing for decades about the need for modern management techniques and computerization in running law firms.
Ramo was born August 8, 1942, in Denver. The daughter of a Western clothing retailer, she graduated from the University of Colorado magna cum laude in 1964. She then entered the University of Chicago Law School, and received a juris doctorate in 1967.
Having worked her way to prominence within the organization, Ramo made her first run for ABA president in 1991. Only one other woman had run for that office, in 1986, only to pull out of the race very early when she failed to gain significant support. Ramo's bid became legend in ABA politics, where it is not unusual for someone to run unopposed for president and where the vote usually is very quick when it concerns two candidates. For the first time, three contenders were left at the time of the election, and the voting dragged throughout the day to an unprecedented eighty-eight ballots before she finally lost.
Ramo ran again and won in 1995, serving from August of that year to August 1996. The perception and reality of the old guard tradition in ABA leadership were so strong that when she was elected, the New York Times noted that even with two women on the U.S. Supreme Court and two women at the highest level of the Justice Department, a "perhaps even more formidable barrier has fallen."

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