Audio-Visual Materials - Women Trailblazers in the Law Project Oral History Interview - Sound Recordings and Transcripts, 2012

Abstract

Oral histories with Justice Cornelia G. Kennedy conducted by Allyson A. Miller from January 5, 2012 through October 19, 2012 as part of the Women Trailblazers in Law Project. Over the course of the interviews, Justice Kennedy recalls her parents, Elmer and M. Blanche (Gibbons) Groefsema; childhood and education in Detroit; and experiences as an undergraduate and law student at the University of Michigan during World War II. Other topics include the women with whom she attended law school; the challenges they faced in entering the profession; Kennedy's clerkship and private legal practice; her career on the Wayne County Circuit Court, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; her nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court, and her additional roles as a wife and mother.