I would guess that the percent of women practicing law in Athens is smaller than the percent in law school, but I think if you looked at it on a larger basis, it probably isn't substantially different.

I think part of it is figuring out how to do it all - have families, be involved in a church or charitable organization and have a practice that can be demanding in terms of time.

In Athens, I feel really that I get treated with equal respect and that it doesn't make a difference in terms of male-female. I think there is a much better sense of professionalism in the legal community. I think there's a level of respect there that may not exist in other places.

My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

I went to law school after college.