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Justice Ginsburg addresses women judges in ChicagoU.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be a keynote luncheon speaker when the National Association of Women Judges holds its Midwest Leadership Conference in August in Chicago. Scheduled Wednesday through Friday, Aug. 27-29, at the Hotel Inter-Continental, the conference will be attended by member of the bench, bar and academia, primarily from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. For more information and registration details, contact Jeffrey Groton at groton@nawl.org. Co-chairs include Cook County Judge Sophia H. Hall, Associate Judge Cheryl D. Cesario, a member of the ISBA Assembly, and Judge Jane Craney of Indiana Superior Court. Justice Ginsburg’s speech will take place during a luncheon Thursday, Aug. 28. An inaugural Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Scholarship will be presented to a Chicago-area law student. Chicago attorney and author Scott Turow of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal also will speak during the conference, at which the NAWJ president, Justice Fernande Duffly of the Massachusetts Court of Appeals, will preside. Leaders of the Chicago Friends Committee that has supported the conference are Leslie D. Davis of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal; Kathleen L. Roach of Sidley Austin; Christina M. Tchen of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Linda L. Listrom of Jenner & Block, and Guy Rounsaville Jr., executive vice president and general counsel of ABN AMRO.
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