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Board of Managerial Trustees
Hon. Leslie Alden, Chair
Fairfax Circuit Court
Fairfax, VA
Judge Leslie M. Alden has been a trial judge in Fairfax County, Virginia since 1995. For the last 5 years, she has served as the International Director for the U.S. National Association of Women Judges, and is developing a judicial education program titled "Beyond Borders: The Impact of International Law in State and Federal Courts" to educate U.S. judges on international law and principles. She chairs the Board of Managerial Trustees for the International Association of Women, and serves as the IAWJ Vice President for Programs. She is a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Advanced Management Journal, the publication of the Society for the Advancement of Management, and serves on the Judicial Council of Virginia. In 2001, she completed the Economics Institute for State Judges presented by the Law and Organizational Economics Center.
Hon. Rosemarie Annunziata
Virginia Court of Appeals
Fairfax, VA
Judge Annunziata began practicing law in 1978 and was elected as a judge in 1989. Prior to her election, she served on the Fairfax County Planning Commission and acted as counsel and hearing officer for the Fairfax County Civil Service Commission and the Commonwealth of Virginia. She is a member of many boards and committees such as the Virginia Bar Association's Committee on Special Issues of National and State Importance and the Dean's Advisory Council of the Washington College of Law at American University. She also served as Chair of the Judicial Education Committee of the Judicial Conference of Virginia, and the judicial member of the Virginia State Bar Family Law Section, Board of Governors. Judge Annunziata is listed in Who's Who in American Law, has been recognized in "Fighting for Public Justice: Cases and Trial Lawyers That Made A Difference," published by Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, 2002, the recipient of the Fairfax County Human Rights Commission 1997 Human Rights Award, and the recipient of the Fairfax County Commission for Women Special Achievement Award for Women, 1981.
Hon. Anna Blackburne-Rigsby
Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Washington, DC
Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby has served as an Associate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia since her appointment by President Clinton in July 2000. Prior to this, Judge Blackburne-Rigsby served on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and has worked with the Family Services Division of the office of the Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia and the Corporation Counsel. She was a associate at the law firm of Hogan and Hartson, from 1987-1992. Judge Blackburne-Rigsby is a 1987 graduate of Howard University School of Law, and received her undergraduate degree from Duke University. Judge Blackburne-Rigsby is a member of several organizations including the NAACP, the Washington Bar Association, the National Association of Women Judges and the IAWJ. Judge Blackburne-Rigsby is married to Judge Robert R. Rigsby, an Associate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. They are members of Shiloh Baptist Church. They live in Washington, DC with their 6-year-old son Julian.
Hon. Mary McGowan Davis (ret.)
Consultant, Legal Momentum
Brooklyn, NY
Mary McGowan Davis is a Visiting Attorney at the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. She works with advocates and attorneys across the country on issues that address the impact of violence in the lives of working women. She is also involved in projects that focus on utilizing international human rights norms to advance gender equality in U.S. domestic matters. Ms. Davis has twenty-five years' experience in the criminal justice arena, most recently as a Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York and as an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Before her appointment to the bench, she worked as a Staff Attorney at the Criminal Appeals Bureau of the Legal Aid Society in New York City and spent nine years as an Assistant U. S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. Ms. Davis served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal from 1967 to 1969. She returned to Africa in 2001 as a consultant to the International Process and Justice Project at Trinity College, Dublin, which is conducting a study documenting the day-to-day decision making and evolving criminal procedure jurisprudence at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. A graduate of Wellesley College, Ms. Davis holds M.A. and J.D. degrees from Columbia University. She serves as a trustee of Continuum Health Services, Inc. and its member hospitals. She is also a member of the managerial boards of RAINBO, the American Association for the International Commission of Jurists, and the International Association of Women Judges.
Ambassador Susan G. Esserman
Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Washington, DC
Susan G. Esserman, a graduate of Wellesley College (BA) and the University of Michigan Law School (JD), is a partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where she is Chair of the firm's International Department and serves on the Executive Committee. Ms. Esserman provides legal and strategic advice to domestic and foreign clients on expanding access to global markets and represents clients in international trade litigation and dispute resolution matters. Ms. Esserman previously served as Deputy United States Trade Representative, the second ranking official at USTR, with the standing of Ambassador, and she held three additional senior posts at USTR and the Department of Commerce, including USTR General Counsel, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration and General Counsel of Commerce. As Deputy USTR, Ambassador Esserman was responsible for US trade policy and negotiations in the WTO and with Europe, India, Russia, the former Soviet Union, Africa, and the Middle East. Ms. Esserman is a frequent speaker and writer on trade law and policy, WTO and India issues, and she is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and sits on the board of directors of the US-India Business Council, the Aschiana Foundation and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Judith W. Gilmore
Consultant
Washington, DC
Judith Gilmore was Director of the Office of Private and Voluntary Cooperation at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from April 2000 until March 2006, when she retired from USAID. Previous positions included: deputy director of USAID's Office of Regional Sustainable Development, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (1997-2000), director of the Office of East Asia Affairs (1994-1997); deputy director of the Office of Sahel and West Africa Affairs (1991-1994); deputy director for the Office of Technical Resources, Bureau for Africa (1990-1991); and regional division chief for Latin America and then Africa in the Office of Food for Peace (1987-1990). Prior to joining USAID, she worked at Oxfam-America, the International Labor Organization (ILO), and the Organization of American States (OAS). A graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Ms. Gilmore also earned certificates in French and Spanish translation from Georgetown University's Institute of Language and Linguistics. She received her BA in French literature from Wellesley College.
Cynthia Graae
Writer, Consultant
Washington, DC
Cynthia Graae is a writer who lives in Washington, DC. Ms. Graae has volunteered her time to many causes and organizations, including H.D. Cooke School where she taught creative writing and Swarthmore College where she ran the extern program. In addition to her service to the IAWJ, she is a member of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College and a member of the District of Columbia Advisory Committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights. She was formerly assistant staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, director of consumer and civil rights at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and director of fair housing investigations at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. She was the project manager for the public art project, Hopscotch Bridge. Ms. Graae received her B.A. from Swarthmore College, her M.Sc. from Oxford University and her M.F.A. from American University.
Donald H. Green
Partner, Pepper Hamilton, LLP
Washington, DC
Donald H. Green is with the Washington, DC Office of the law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, served in the U.S. Department of Justice, and has been in private practice since 1961. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He recently completed a 3-year term on the U.S. Defense Department's Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, where he chaired the Equality Management Committee. Mr. Green is a retired Marine Corps colonel, where his decorations include the Legion of Merit for his work on the International Law of War. He is married and has 4 grown children and 3 grandchildren.
Vicki C. Jackson
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, DC
Professor Jackson received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. Upon graduation from law school, Ms. Jackson served as a law clerk to Judge Murray Gurfein (U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit), Morris Lasker (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York), and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She teaches courses in constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, federal courts, Supreme Court, and on gender-related issues at Georgetown University Law Center. She is co-author with Professor Mark Tushnet of a coursebook on Comparative Constitutional Law, and has written numerous articles for scholarly journals. She served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice (2000-01); as a member of the D.C. Bar Board of Governors (1999-2000); as a co-chair of the Special Committee on Gender of the D.C. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias (1992-95), and a member of the D.C. Circuit Advisory Committee on Procedures (1992-98).
Susan M. Liss
Washington, DC
Susan M. Liss recently concluded her work as Executive Director of the Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania, a project of Columbia Law School, which funded research about the ways in which medical, legal and insurance-related issues effect the medical liability system in Pennsylvania and nationally. Prior to directing the Project, Ms. Liss served as Vice President for Women's Health at the National Women's Law Center, where she helped to create the National Women's Health Report Card. A graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A.) and the Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.), Ms. Liss has worked for a number of organizations during her twenty-seven year legal career, focusing primarily on constitutional, civil rights and women's issues, including People for the American Way, the Alliance for Justice and the Citizen's Commission on Civil Rights. During the Clinton-Gore administration, she held two political appointments at the Department of Justice and later served as Chief of Staff to Tipper Gore and Special Counsel to the Vice President. Ms. Liss is a member of the Board, Chair of the Development Committee, and a member of the Grants Committee of the New Israel Fund; Chair of the Advisory Committee of the University of Michigan Washington Internship Program; member of the U of M Political Science Advisory Committee; and a member of the Board of the Frederick B. Abramson Foundation. She is married to Jeffrey F. Liss, Managing Partner of the international law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, L.L.P., and is the mother of Joanna Liss (Scripps College class of 2005) and Harrison Liss (University of Michigan class of 2008).
Hon. Arline Pacht (ret.)
Founder of IAWJ
Chevy Chase, MD
Arline Pacht attended George Washington University School of Law. Afterwards, she joined the Washington, DC Public Defender Service representing persons accused of crimes ranging from minor misdemeanors to major felonies in the District of Columbia Superior Court and U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Pacht also served as a supervisory attorney in the General Counsel's Office for Civil Rights with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and as an administrative law judge (ALJ) with the U.S. Department of Labor and later at the National Labor Relations Board. Judge Pacht retired from the NLRB in 1998 to serve as the Executive Director of the IAWJ. As founding President and then Executive Director, she designed and developed a number of projects including the organization's pioneering human rights educational program for judges. She retired as Director on July 1, 2002, but continued to serve as editor of the organization's newsletter, Counterbalance International and is on the Association's Board of Managerial Trustees. Judge Pacht also is an active member of the U.S. National Association of Women Judges. The IAWJ honored her with its Human Rights Award at its Dublin, Ireland Conference in 2000.
Maria B. Pica
Corporate Responsibility, Chevron Texaco
San Ramon, CA
Judith Resnik
Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
New Haven, CT
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor Law at Yale Law School. She joined the faculty in 1997, when she founded the Liman Public Interest Program. Professor Resnik teaches and writes about procedure, federalism, and women's rights both domestically and transnationally. Her recent essays include "Law's Migration: American Exceptionalism, Silent Dialogues, and Federalism's Multiple Ports of Entry," 115 Yale L. J. 1564 (2006) and "Categorical Federalism: Gender, Jurisdiction and the Globe," 111 Yale L. J. 619 (2001). Her most recent book is Adjudication and Its Alternatives (with Qwen M. Fiss, 2003). She also was a co-author of The Effects of Gender (1994), the first monograph to address the role gender played in the federal court system. Professor Resnik has testified many times before congressional and judicial committees. In 1987, she argued before the Supreme Court in a case involving women's admission to the Rotary Club. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the American Bar Association's Margaret Brent Award. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and NYU Law School, she has also taught law at the University of Southern California and visited at the law schools of NYU, Chicago, Harvard, and the University of Toronto, has been a Parsons Fellow at the University of Sydney and has served as a member of the faculty at the Salzburg Seminar.
Hon. Vanessa Ruiz
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Washington, DC
Judge Vanessa Ruiz was appointed to the position of Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the highest court of the District of Columbia, in 1994. Before her appointment, she was Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia. Prior to government service, Judge Ruiz was in private practice. She is active in many organizations, including the U.S. National Association of Women Judges, the Council for Court Excellence, and the American Law Institute. As a member of the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Judge Ruiz serves as a mentor for individual Latino law students, speaks to law students about judicial clerkships and participates in programs to educate the Hispanic community about the law and the courts. Judge Ruiz was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Georgetown University Law Center.
Robert Wald, Esq.
Partner, Baach, Robinson & Lewis
Washington, DC
Robert L. Wald is Senior Counsel to the Washington, DC law firm of Baach Robinson & Lewis. He was a founding partner of Wald Harkrader & Ross, Washington, DC and Nussbaum & Wald, Washington, DC, and served as Assistant to the General Counsel and Chief Division of Export Trade, Federal Trade Commission. He was Chairman of the Romanian American Enterprise Fund. He is a Board Member and past Chairman of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, and a Board Member of the International Senior Lawyers Project, the International Human Rights Law Group, the Capital Area Immigrant Rights Coalition, the International Criminal Justice Institute, and the Fredrick B. Abramson Memorial Foundation. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School.
Joan D. Winship, ex officio
Executive Director, IAWJ
Washington, DC
As Executive Director of the IAWJ, Ms. Winship directs IAWJ programming worldwide, manages the international headquarters, and provides creative leadership to support the work of IAWJ members, judicial training programs, and other activities of the IAWJ. Ms. Winship has many years of experience working on international issues, including international organizations, human rights, gender, and global higher education and has worked as an international consultant in these fields through her own firm, Winship Consulting. Recently she has authored several reports for USAID focusing on the Gender Action Plans of various international and national development organizations. Previously, she was Advisor for Strategic Alliances for Vital Voices Global Partnership, where she developed and coordinated the Vital Voices Global Leadership Institute in collaboration with Georgetown University. From 1994-2000, she was Vice President at the Stanley Foundation, where she served as head of Outreach and International Programs. She also served as Director of Women Waging Peace, a network of women in conflict and post-conflict situations then based at Hunt Alternatives and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has more than twenty years experience as a college administrator and professor of political science. Ms. Winship is a Trustee of the American University of Rome, on the advisory boards of US Women Connect and the Global Alliance for Women's Health, and was a founding Fellow of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights.
Mildred Wurf, Treasurer
Consultant
Washington, DC
Mildred Kiefer Wurf's work in the public policy arena in Washington, DC focused on issues of gender equity, especially in the field of youth development. As the Director of Public Policy for Girls Incorporated, she identified the inequitable allocation of public and private resources for programs and services for girls and boys. When Ms. Wurf first raised this issue, two dollars went to boys' services for every dollar directed to girls, whether the funds were from foundations, United Ways, the federal government, or corporate contributions. Redressing that imbalance led to an active advocacy role for Girls Inc., which had been a traditional direct community service organization. Ms. Wurf earlier worked in the labor and cooperative movements in New York City. She holds an A.B. degree from the University of California at Berkeley and did her graduate work at Columbia University.
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