As more and more women enter the field of electoral politics and become candidates for federal and state office, they will continue to bring their unique perspectives to the myriad of policy questions and challenges of governing. The increased number of women in electoral politics will indelibly reshape our nation’s laws. To that end, and quite fittingly, before a new generation of female lawmakers reshape our halls of legislation in both state capitals and in Washington D.C., they are first changing the ways in which they arrive in those very halls.
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Clara Anderson v. City of St. Paul: A Woman’s Fight to Save Her Job in the Face of Discrimination
John H. Guthmann is the Chief Judge of Minnesota’s Second Judicial District and a member of the Ramsey County Historical Society Board of Directors. He graduated from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, with a double major in history and political science in 1976 and received his JD from St. Paul’s William Mitchell College of Law1 in 1980. He was Editor-in-Chief of Volume 6 of the William Mitchell Law Review. After clerking for Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Sheran, he spent twenty-seven years in private practice until his appointment to the bench in 2008.
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