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Shortlisted

Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

Hannah Brenner Johnson, Renee Knake Jefferson

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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Allgemeines, Lexika

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Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's Nonfiction

Best Book of 2020, National Law Journal

The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the US Supreme Court


In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court after centuries of male appointments, a watershed moment in the long struggle for gender equality. Yet few know about the remarkable women considered in the decades before her triumph.

Shortlisted tells the overlooked stories of nine extraordinary women—a cohort large enough to seat the entire Supreme Court—who appeared on presidential lists dating back to the 1930s. Florence Allen, the first female judge on the highest court in Ohio, was named repeatedly in those early years. Eight more followed, including Amalya Kearse, a federal appellate judge who was the first African American woman viewed as a potential Supreme Court nominee. Award-winning scholars Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson cleverly weave together long-forgotten materials from presidential libraries and private archives to reveal the professional and personal lives of these accomplished women.

In addition to filling a notable historical gap, the book exposes the tragedy of the shortlist. Listing and bypassing qualified female candidates creates a false appearance of diversity that preserves the status quo, a fate all too familiar for women, especially minorities. Shortlisted offers a roadmap to combat enduring bias and discrimination. It is a must-read for those seeking positions of power as well as for the powerful who select them in the legal profession and beyond.

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relationships, administration of justice, storytelling, inequality, law, feminism, intersectionality, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Carla Hills, collaboration, Sylvia Bacon, double binds, child care, solutions, chief justice, George W. Bush, lawyers, appearance, research methods, Edith Jones, judicial opinions, quotas, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, essentialism, Elena Kagan, Pamela Rymer, 19th amendment, Declaration of Sentiments, international, competence, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Cynthia Hall, Barack Obama, diversity, selected, Sandra Day O’Connor, legal education, Gerald Ford, Cornelia Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, racism, tokenism, Joan Dempsey Klein, Soia Mentschikoff, bias, Harry S. Truman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Florence Allen, discrimination, judicial appointment, women’s rights, narrative, sexual harassment, contradiction, strategies, motherhood, suffrage, mentors, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, Susie M. Sharp, leadership, Amalya Lyle Kearse, Mildred Lillie, equality, judiciary, self-shortlisting, Sonia Sotomayor, William Jefferson Clinton, Harriet Miers