ROSALIE WAHL:
An Inventory of Her Papers
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| Creator: | Wahl, Rosalie Erwin, 1924-. |
| Title: | Rosalie Wahl papers. |
| Date: | 1958-1998 (bulk 1977-1994). |
| Abstract: | Personal papers from the judicial chambers of
Rosalie Wahl, first woman appointed (1977) and successively elected (1978,
1984, 1990) to the Minnesota Supreme Court. |
| Quantity: | 16.75 cu. ft. (17 boxes). |
| Location: | See Detailed Description section for box
locations. |
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Rosalie Wahl was born as Sara Rosalie Erwin on August 27, 1924 in
Gordon, Kansas, the third daughter of four children born to Claude William and
Gertrude (Patterson) Erwin. Growing up in the Depression era, Wahl experienced
tremendous personal hardship. Her mother died when Wahl was three years old and
she, with her sisters and brother, moved to live with her maternal grandparents
on a farm near Birch Creek, Kansas. Four years later, Wahl's grandfather and
brother were killed by a train after she opened a gate that led from the farm
to the creek across a set of railroad tracks. She spent the remainder of her
childhood on that same farm in Birch Creek and was raised by her grandmother
with help from her mother's sister, Sara Patterson.
In 1942 Wahl entered the University of Kansas intending to pursue a
journalism degree. The following summer she returned to Birch Creek to teach.
Her fiancé, an air force serviceman, died the next winter in a training
accident. Wahl describes herself at this time as torn between choosing a life
of poetry and mysticism or following a path of social and political
activism.1 Determined to pursue a field where she
could help people, Wahl went back to the University where she edited the campus
newspaper and became involved with the campus YWCA where she helped form a
women's interracial residential cooperative. During this time Wahl became a
Quaker. In 1946 she graduated with a degree in sociology and though she had
planned to go to California to work with migrants she instead married Roswell
Wahl, a family friend and mechanical engineer.
Wahl's first child was born in 1947 and, in 1949, the family moved to
Circle Pines, Minnesota to participate in a newly-formed cooperative community.
Three more children were born while the family lived in Circle Pines and then,
in 1955, the family moved to a former dairy farm in Lake Elmo where Rosalie
Wahl has lived since.
In 1962 at the age of 38 and "tired of sitting outside doors waiting
for the men inside to make the decisions,"2 Wahl
entered the William Mitchell School of Law. Her fifth and last child was born
in 1964. In 1967 she graduated with her law degree and passed the state bar
examination. Immediately thereafter she began working for the state as an
assistant public defender. In 1972, the same year she and her husband divorced,
Wahl taught criminal law at the University of Minnesota. The following year she
accepted a professorship at William Mitchell where she directed the clinical
legal education program. This was both an experimental and controversial
program as students, under supervision and in cooperation with the state's
public defender office, were representing indigent defendants in criminal court
proceedings.
In 1977 Governor Rudy Perpich appointed Wahl to the Supreme Court to
replace Harry H. MacLaughlin. Wahl's appointment was significant as she was the
first woman jurist to sit on the state's highest court. While on the Supreme
Court, Wahl served as its liaison to the Court's Study Commission on the
Mentally Disabled and also chaired its task forces on gender fairness and
racial bias. These committees gathered information through public hearings,
questionnaires, and court statistical data that was used to evaluate the
judicial system and its proceedings. The findings and recommendations made by
these committees were used to implement changes within the judicial system
through training sessions, procedural rulings, and legislation.
Wahl sustained her earlier interest in clinical training and
professional development throughout her judicial career by participating in the
Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar
Association. She chaired that section in 1987-1988 and proposed the formation
of a study group headed by Robert MacCrate to examine the continuum between
legal education and practice. Wahl's own role in this study group was to chair
a subcommittee that drafted a statement on fundamental lawyering skills and
professional values.
Elected to the court in 1978 and successively reelected in 1984 and
1990, Wahl retired at the mandatory retirement age of 70 in 1994. When she
retired, women held four of the seven Supreme Court seats.
1 Deborah J. Fisher, "Rosalie Wahl: Beyond
the Little House on the Prairie," Twin Cities
Woman, June 1978, sec. 2.
2 Quoted by Donna Halvorsen in "Judge Wahl
Leaves Historic and Personal Mark on Supreme Court," Star
Tribune, August 28, 1994, sec. A.
Additional biographical information was taken from the collection.
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The collection contains papers Wahl kept in her judicial chambers as
well as personal papers she collected prior to and during her judicial career.
Included are biographical information; speeches and writings; files regarding
her Supreme Court appointment, elections, opinions, and committee work; subject
files; materials related to her interest in legal education; and files
detailing her connection with civic associations during the late 1950s and
early 1960s.
The focus of the collection is on Wahl's role as liaison to the
Supreme Court's Study Commission on the Mentally Disabled, as chair of the
Court's Task Force on Gender Fairness and later of its Implementation
Committee, and as chair of the Task Force on Racial Bias. Included are
committee memoranda, correspondence, minutes, research data, reports, training
materials, procedural rules, legislative proposals, news clippings, and
background information. Other materials regarding Wahl's judicial term include
files related to some of the opinions she wrote and files concerning the
candidacy of other judicial nominees and applicants.
Wahl's concern about legal representation for the poor and her
interest in professional skills training are also well documented. Subject
files provide information regarding the legal aid activities of the state bar
association as well as the state public defender system.
A separate series details Wahl's activities in the American Bar
Association's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
The collection also includes an extensive set of speech files that
begin with the remarks she made at the Minnesota Woman's Meeting in St. Cloud
on June 3, 1977 just after her appointment to the Supreme Court was announced.
Other less extensive materials document Wahl's earlier work with both the
Friends of the Library and the Citizens Committee on Education in Washington
County.
Additional information regarding each of the eight series in this
collection may be found in the Detailed Description of the Collection. For a
list of these series, consult the Organization of the Collection which
follows.
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| This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog
of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about
related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these
headings. |
| Topics: |
| | Bias (Law)--Minnesota. |
| | Discrimination in justice administration--Minnesota. |
| | Domestic relations--Minnesota. |
| | Education--Minnesota--Washington County. |
| | Insane--Commitment and detention--Minnesota. |
| | Insanity--Jurisprudence--Minnesota. |
| | Judges--Selection and appointment--Minnesota. |
| | Judges--Election. |
| | Judicial opinions--Minnesota. |
| | Judicial process--Minnesota. |
| | Law--Study and teaching--United States. |
| | Legal assistance to the poor--Minnesota. |
| | Library cooperation--Minnesota--Washington County. |
| | Mental health laws--Minnesota. |
| | Public defenders--Minnesota. |
| | Racism--Minnesota. |
| | Sex discrimination in justice
administration--Minnesota. |
| | Sexism--Minnesota. |
| Places: |
| | Minnesota--Race relations. |
| Persons: |
| | Kennedy, William R. |
| | MacCrate, Robert. |
| | Schafran, Lynn Hecht. |
| | Wikler, Norma. |
| Organizations: |
| | American Bar Association. Section of Legal Education and
Admissions to the Bar. |
| | Citizens Committee on Education, District 834 (Washington
County, Minn.). Subcommittee on Length of School Year. |
| | Hennepin County (Minn.). Office of the Public
Defender. |
| | Minnesota. Office of the State Public Defender. |
| | Minnesota State Bar Association. Legal Assistance to the
Disadvantaged Committee. |
| | Minnesota. Supreme Court. Gender Fairness Implementation
Committee. |
| | Minnesota. Supreme Court. Implementation Committee on
Multicultural Diversity and Racial Fairness in the Courts. |
| | Minnesota. Supreme Court. Study Commission on the Mentally
Disabled and the Courts. |
| | Minnesota. Supreme Court. Task Force on Gender Fairness in
the Courts. |
| | Minnesota. Supreme Court. Task Force on Racial Bias in the
Judicial System. |
| | National Association of Women Judges (U.S.). Annual
Conference (7th : 1985 : Minneapolis, Minn.). |
| | Washington County Friends of the Library (Washington County,
Minn.). |
| Types of Documentation: |
| | Speeches. |
| | Poems. |
| | Photographs. |
| | Audio tapes. |
| Occupations: |
| | Women judges--Minnesota. |
| | Quakers--Minnesota. |
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| Restrictions: |
| | Access to portions of the collection requires written
permission. |
| | Copyright in that portion of the collection owned by the donor is
reserved by the donor. News releases, clippings, photographs, and commonly
available publications are excluded from this restriction. |
| | Please consult the reference staff for more information. |
| Preferred Citation: |
| | [Indicate the cited item and/or series
here]. Rosalie Wahl Papers. Minnesota Historical Society. |
| | See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional
examples. |
| Accession Information: |
| | Accession number: 15589; 16060 |
| Processing Information: |
| | Processed by: Monica Manny Ralston, January 1999, September 2005 |
| | PALS ID number: 09-00321247 |
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location and box numbers shown below.
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Biographical Information, 1960s-1995
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| These files contain an assortment of materials providing details
about Wahl's life and achievements. Included are resumes, news clippings,
magazine excerpts, television news spots, a sample of her fingerprints,
photographs, award certificates, membership certificates, diplomas, and a set
of tributes written at the time she retired by her court and academic
colleagues for publication in the William Mitchell Law
Review. The biographical information also contains two oral history
interviews: the first conducted by Norma J. Wikler (sociologist and consultant
to the Supreme Court's Task Force on Gender Fairness) and Laura Kadwell (Wahl's
law clerk, 1981-1982) on March 25 and 27, 1990; the second conducted by Laura
Cooper (University of Minnesota law professor) on August 17, 1994. The
interviews include discussion about her childhood and college years in Kansas,
the move to Minnesota to engage in a cooperative living experiment, her entry
into law school, her work with the state public defenders office and as a
professor at the William Mitchell College of Law, her appointment to the
Supreme Court, her first election, the Court's task forces on gender fairness
and racial bias, and her judicial opinions in a few selected cases. Photographs
included within this series contain both formal and candid portraits of Wahl as
well as formal group portraits of the Court justices. |
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Resumes.
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Press clippings, 1973-1994. 3 folders.
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KSTP-TV news spots, 1977-1983. 1 videorecording; 3/4
in.
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Publications quoting or citing Wahl, 1992,
1995.
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"Justice is a Woman" by Gwenyth Jones: Interview notes
and article, August 1994.
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Bar of Minnesota 51 (August 1994). |
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Oral History Interviews:
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Interview conducted by Norma J. Wilker and Laura
Kadwell, March 25 and 27, 1990. 2 sound cassettes.
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Interview conducted by Laura Cooper, August 17, 1994. 3 video recordings.
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Laura Cooper's research file.
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Tribute to Rosalie E. Wahl (pre-publication),
William Mitchell Law Review 21 (1995).
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as tributes written by Minnesota Court of Appeals Judge Harriet Lansing,
Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice A. M. Keith, Minnesota Supreme Court
Associate Justice M. Jeanne Coyne, former law clerk Amy Adams, William Mitchell
College of Law professor Douglas Heidenreich, William Mitchell College of Law
professor Roger S. Haydock, William Mitchell College of Law president and dean
James F. Hogg, Minnesota Third District congressman Jim Ramstad, and Minnesota
Supreme Court Associate Justice Esther M. Tomljanovich. |
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Fingerprints, 1978.
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Photographs, 1960s-1995. 4 folders.
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Certificates of membership, 1968, 1973-1977.
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Awards and certificates, 1973-1994.
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Alexandrine Medal, College of St. Catherine, December
1978.
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Robert J. Kutak Award presentation to Rosalie E. Wahl,
1994.
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| | | Contains the text of remarks made by Millard Ruud in presenting
the award to Wahl. |
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Honorary degrees:
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Doctor of Laws, William Mitchell College of Law,
1978.
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Doctor of Laws, Carleton College, 1987.
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Doctor of Humane Letters, Hamline University,
1992.
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Leaders of Today and Tomorrow (LOTT): Justice Rosalie E.
Wahl Fund, 1994-1995.
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Civic Associations, 1958-1962
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| This series contains materials pertaining to Wahl's involvement in
two voluntary associations before she began to study law. Included are files
pertaining to a subcommittee that surveyed parents and made recommendations
about the required length of the school year to the Citizens Committee on
Education in Washington County. Also included are materials regarding a
movement by the Friends of the Library to expand library services in Washington
County from a mobile unit supported by the Stillwater Public Library to a
consolidated system governed by a county board. The files contain committee
minutes, reports, memoranda, correspondence, Wahl's notes, newsletters, and
news clippings. |
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| 144.B.17.15B | 1 |
Washington County School District 834: Citizens
Committee on Education: Subcommittee on Length of School Year, 1958-1962.
2 folders.
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Washington County library service, 1959-1962.
2 folders.
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Law Practice and Teaching, 1965-1977
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| This section contains materials pertaining to Wahl's graduation
from the William Mitchell Law School, her bar examination, and her positions as
a law professor at both the University of Minnesota and the William Mitchell
College of Law. |
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Law school commencement and bar examination,
1965-1967.
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| | | Includes a 1965-1966 directory of the William Mitchell College
of Law Student Bar Association, the June 1967 commencement program for Wahl's
graduation from William Mitchell, correspondence and affidavits regarding
Wahl's application for bar examination, the questions issued in her examination
with Wahl's notes, a statement regarding Wahl's desire to practice law, and her
remarks as one of the new lawyers admitted to the state bar in 1967. |
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Petition and certificate to practice in U.S. 4th
District Court, 1973.
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University of Minnesota Law School: Appointment as
adjunct clinical professor, 1972-1973.
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William Mitchell College of Law:
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Criminal Law Clinic:
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Correspondence, 1972-1977. Restricted.
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Procedure manual, 1973-1975.
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| | | | | Contains Wahl's course objectives and procedures for
students enrolled in criminal law clinics. |
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Criminal misdemeanors and moving traffic violations,
1977.
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a seminar sponsored by the Midwest Practice Institute. |
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Speeches and Writings, undated and 1975-1998
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| The speeches and writings are arranged chronologically by speaking
engagement. Each speech is identified by title, sponsoring party, audience,
event, place, and date. If Wahl gave no title to her text, the file is simply
identified as "Remarks" or by the type of presentation such as "Commencement
address." In some instances the audience, event, or place also may not be
identified. |
| Wahl's speaking engagements included keynote addresses, conference
sessions, panel presentations and responses, training seminars, investitures,
introductions, tributes, eulogies, commencements, and award ceremonies. Her
audiences included judges, lawyers, bar associations, educational institutions,
women's organizations, peace officers, correctional workers, mental health
professionals, religious congregations, school children, and other special
interest groups. The topics on which she spoke covered a wide area and often
drew from her own experiences. Generally her themes covered such issues as
social justice, constitutional law, legal training and professional
development, women's roles, leadership, feminism, parenting, family law, and
health. Other speeches address specific events or activities such as her own
judicial appointment or the findings and recommendations of the various court
and bar association committees on which she served. |
| Though not reflected elsewhere in the collection, Wahl was a
Quaker and some of her speeches were given to Unitarian, Congregational, or
Friends gatherings. During these presentations Wahl spoke very candidly about
her own faith and world-view and these remarks provide a most intimate glimpse
of her inner persona. |
| The majority of the files contain Wahl's handwritten texts. Others
appear in typescript form. The files may also include correspondence, program
announcements, pamphlets, photographs, and press clippings related to the
speaking engagements. Quite frequently, Wahl excerpted portions from one speech
for another presentation by framing her opening remarks to the particular
audience. Examples of these speeches are grouped together under a topical
heading such as "gender fairness speaking file." |
| Wahl often quoted poetry in her speeches and though she was
especially fond of Emily Dickinson, she sometimes used her own poems. Two files
preceding the chronological arrangement include typed selections of her poetry
as well as an audio tape of Wahl reading her own poetry. |
| Some of Wahl's presentations were later published in journals or
newsletters. Published versions of these presentations are included within the
relevant speech files. These publications include a lecture delivered to the
Hamline University Law School on March 9, 1978 titled "Equal Justice Under Law:
Dream or Reality"; an address to the 1980 Friends General Conference published
in Friends Journal as the article "Here Am I! Send
Me"; an address given to the Women's Law Caucus at William Mitchell on April
10, 1986 and published under the title "Some Reflections on Women and the
Judiciary;" an address titled "More Prelude than Token" made at the October
1991 conference of the National Association of Women Judges; and a speech given
at a conference of the Legal Writing Institute in Seattle on July 20, 1996. |
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Poems, undated, 1975, 1991.
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Poetry of Rosalie Wahl, 1973. Restricted.1 sound cassette.
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| | | Recorded in 1973 by Wahl for her friend, the poet Jeanne
Lohmann, the cassette includes poems written by Wahl between 1943 and 1973. |
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Miscellaneous speaking engagements,
1978-1990.
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printed material concerning engagements for which speech texts are not
evident. |
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Remarks, Minnesota National Hispanic Heritage Week,
undated.
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Remarks, National Association of Criminal Defense
Lawyers, undated.
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Response of Rosalie Wahl at the Minnesota Women's
Meeting, St. Cloud, Minn., June 3, 1977.
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Remarks, [St. Croix Valley School District, July 7,
1977].
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Remarks, Blue Earth and Watonwan County Bar
Associations, September 22, 1977.
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Remarks of Justice Rosalie E. Wahl on being sworn-in as
a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court, October 3, 1977.
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| | | Includes a sound recording containing the remarks made by both
Wahl and Chief Justice Robert J. Sheran. |
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Swearing in of new lawyers, October 21,
1977.
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Remarks, Announcement of the Fall '77 Rosalie E. Wahl
Appellate Moot Court Competition award recipients, William Mitchell College of
Law Student Convocation, October 29, 1977.
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Remarks, Minnesota Association for Women in Criminal
Justice, November 1, 1977.
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["Repairs of the Breach,"] Amicus Annual Dinner,
December 12, 1977.
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Remarks, The Big Sister Association, 1978.
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Remarks, Minnesota Woman's Yearbook Ceremony, March 7,
1978.
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"Equal Justice Under Law: Dream or Reality?," Putnam
Lecture, Hamline University, March 9, 1978.
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Hamline Law Review (1979). |
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Remarks, Women's Career Day, Southwest State University,
Marshall, Minn., March 10, 1978.
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"The Successful Woman in Criminal Justice: Who's
Responsible?," Department of Corrections Quarterly Workshop Seminar, March 21,
1978.
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Remarks, Miss Basketball Banquet, Optimist's Club of St.
Paul, April 8, 1978.
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"Worlds of Women," Greater Minneapolis Girl Scout
Council, April 15, 1978.
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"Access to Justice," Hennepin County Lawyers Wives Law
Day, May 1, 1978.
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Remarks, Luncheon for New Lawyers, May 5,
1978.
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Remarks [on Women and Change,] American Association of
University Women, May 19, 1978.
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Commencement address, William Mitchell College of Law,
May 21, 1978.
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"The Effect of the Judicial System on Families,"
Minnesota Governor's Conference on Families, Brooklyn Park, May 22,
1978.
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Commencement address, Southwest State University,
Marshall, Minn., May 27, 1978.
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Remarks, Freedom House 5th Anniversary Celebration,
Minneapolis, June 2, 1978.
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Remarks, 12th District Bar Association, Willmar, Minn.,
June 3, 1978.
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Address, Girls' State Inauguration, College of St.
Catherine, June 15, 1978.
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"How Corrections Fits into the Criminal Justice System,"
Communications Day, August 9, 1978.
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Remarks, Bar Admission Ceremony, September 29,
1978.
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Remarks, Business and Professional Women's State
Legislative Conference, Owatonna, October 7, 1978.
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Meditation, House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul,
October 8, 1978.
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Peace officers speaking file, October 9, 1978-October
31, 1980.
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of the International Association of Women Police, October 9, 1978; portions of
the remarks made to the Minnesota Law Enforcement and Peace Officers
Association, October 21, 1978; a portion of the remarks made to the Paul Bunyan
Peace Officers Association, September 11, 1979; and the principal address given
during the graduation ceremony of the St. Paul Police Recruit Academy, October
31, 1980. |
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Remarks, Rochester Business and Professional Women's
Club, October 17, 1978.
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Remarks, Legal Rights Center Annual Lawyers Meeting,
December 5, 1978.
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Counsel," undated, and a fragment from an unidentified speech on the topic of
legal counsel for the indigent. |
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"We Are Pilgrims Together," December 20, 1978.
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| | | Address given upon receipt of the Alexandrine Medal at the
College of St. Catherine Commencement. |
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"The Mentally Disabled and the Courts," Hennepin County
Bar Association, March 5, 1979.
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"The Farm Woman: An Equal Partner/Legislation Affecting
Farm Women," Farm Women's Forum, Rochester, Minn., March 29, 1979.
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"Women and Power: Ways to Exert Influence," [March 30,
1979].
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Remarks, Criminal Law Section, Minnesota State Bar
Association, June 21, 1979.
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Graduation address, Metropolitan State University, June
26, 1979.
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Remarks, Freshman Orientation, William Mitchell College
of Law, August 18, 1979.
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Address, Business and Professional Women's State
Legislative Convention, Detroit Lakes, September 29, 1979.
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Remarks, CLEPR National Conference on Perspectives on
American Legal Education, Key Biscayne, Florida, October 26, 1979.
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Remarks, Installation of Khoren Arisian as eighth
minister of the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, November 18,
1979.
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"The Relation of the Courts to Mental Health Services,"
Regional Communication for Mental Health Conference, University of Minnesota,
Rochester, Minn., January 10, 1980.
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"Law and Lawyers Working For You," Law Day '80, William
Mitchell College of Law, April 25, 1980.
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"Minneapolis: Portrait of a Life Style--Social Justice,"
Minneapolis Public Library, August 6, 1980.
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Words written on the retirement of Justice Walter F.
Rogosheske, September 8, 1980.
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"Developing Excellence in Local Leadership," Minnesota
Association of Community Correction Act Counties, September 22,
1980.
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"The Supreme Court Commission on the Mentally Disabled,"
County Attorneys' Annual Meeting, November 22, 1980.
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Least Restrictive Setting." |
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"Here Am I! Send Me," Friends
Journal 26:2-6 (December 15, 1980).
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Friends General Conference in Ithaca, New York, 1980. |
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"Living the Questions," Plymouth Congregational Church,
February 1, 1981.
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"The Role of the Courts (i.e. Intervention) in Family
Violence Cases," Minnesota Conference on Family Violence, March 13,
1981.
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Remarks, Volunteer Recognition Service, Hennepin County
Adult Corrections Facility, April 26, 1981.
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Commencement address, Stillwater High School, May 29,
1981.
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Remarks, Girls' State Inauguration, June 11,
1981.
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Remarks, Minnesota Correctional Facility, Shakopee, July
15, 1981.
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Remarks, Celebration honoring Sandra Day O'Connor,
University of Minnesota Law School Lex Alumnae, October 5, 1981.
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Remarks, Foster Parent Recognition Dinner, Washington
County Community Social Services, October 20, 1981.
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Remarks [regarding the Proposed Special Rules of
Procedure to Govern Proceedings Under the Minnesota Hospitalization Act,]
Minnesota House of Representatives, Departmental Affairs Subcommittee, October
28, 1981.
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Remarks, General Mills Law Department Annual Seminar,
Palm Beach, Florida, October 29, 1981.
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Remarks [regarding the Minnesota Supreme Court,] Urban
Concerns Workshop, December 3, 1981.
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Remarks [regarding the Proposed Rules to Govern Mental
Commitments Under the Minnesota Hospitalization And Commitment Act,] Minnesota
Psychiatric Society, December 4, 1981.
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Talking points, WCCO-TV interview on the Equal Rights
Amendment (ERA), 1982.
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Remarks, Court dinner for Robert J. Sheran, January 8,
1982.
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Memorial address, Hennepin County Bar Association, April
28, 1982.
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"On the Testimonial to the Teaching of Mulford Q.
Sibley," [University of Minnesota], June 2, 1982.
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Panel remarks, Minnesota Association of Community
Corrections Act Counties Annual Meeting, September 16, 1982.
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Remarks, Ramsey County Volunteer Attorney Program,
October 12, 1982.
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Remarks, Control Data World Headquarters Management
Club, October 19, 1982.
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"Women in Public Life," League of Women Voters, December
3, 1982.
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Swearing-in of Rudy Perpich as Governor, January 3,
1983.
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Address, Seminar of the National Program for Standards
and Strategies for Change in Juvenile Justice, Bloomington, Minn., July 14,
1983.
|
| |
Remarks, Association for Retarded Citizens Annual
Convention Awards Banquet, St. Cloud State University, August 27,
1983.
|
| |
Child abuse speaking file, September 15-November 17,
1983.
|
| | | Includes the text of a speech entitled "Business and Health
Care: Expanding Resources for Abused and Neglected Children" presented to the
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce Forum, September 15, 1983, and the text of
remarks made before the Dakota County Chamber of Commerce, November 17,
1983. |
| |
Remarks, Minnesota Justice Foundation, October 17,
1983.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.17.16F | 2 |
Greetings, National Hospice Organization, November 11,
1983.
|
| |
"Access to Justice for the Disadvantaged Through Quality
Representation," CLE Forum, William Mitchell College of Law, December 2,
1983.
|
| |
"Responsibilities of Professional Parents to Children:
Their Own and Others," Minnesota Women Lawyers, [March] 1984.
|
| |
"Women and the Legal Profession: A Sharing of
Perspectives (panel response)," National Association for Law Placement
Conference, [Minneapolis], April 30, 1984.
|
| |
"The Law a Bulwark For All Ages," Law Day, Washington
County Bar Association, May 1, 1984.
|
| |
Remarks, Bar Admission Ceremony, St. Paul, Minn., May
11, 1984.
|
| |
Remarks at the premiere of the film
With Open Arms, Mental Health Advocates Coalition,
May 17, 1984.
|
| |
Address, Jewish War Veterans Convention, Bloomington,
Minn., June 3, 1984.
|
| |
"Those Remarkable Mid-life Women," Displaced Homemakers
Conference, Minneapolis, June 15, 1984.
|
| |
Graduation address, University College, University of
Minnesota, June 21, 1984.
|
| |
Remarks, Minnesota Justice Foundation, October 17,
1984.
|
| |
Remarks at the appreciation and award ceremony honoring
Ramsey County attorneys, November 8, 1984.
|
| |
Remarks, Minnesota Women's Network 7th Anniversary
Celebration, November 8, 1984.
|
| |
"To Treat or To Punish: Which Road to Take?" (panel
presentation), University of Minnesota, November 13, 1984. 2 folders.
|
| |
Remarks, Tribute to Minnesota women in the arts, Women's
Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM) and Sing Heavenly Muse, March 20,
1985.
|
| |
Remarks, 10th Anniversary celebration and Annual Meeting
of Stillwater Data Processing Systems, April 14, 1985.
|
| |
"Women and the Law," First Unitarian Society,
Minneapolis, April 21, 1985; and The Thursday Club, St. Paul, May 9,
1985.
|
| |
Introduction of Michael J. Davis, Annual Dinner for
Social Justice Honoring Doug Hall, Minnesota Minority Lawyers Association and
Twin Cities Chapter, National Lawyers Guild, May 17, 1985.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.17.16F | 2 |
"Working for the State," Clerical Support Seminar for
State of Minnesota Employees, May 30-31, 1985.
|
| |
Opening remarks, Banquet Honoring Susanne C. Sedgwick,
National Association of Women Judges, [October] 1985.
|
| |
"Thoughts [about the position of women]," October 24,
1985.
|
| |
Remarks, Minnesota Justice Foundation, October 29,
1985.
|
| |
Commencement address, Law Enforcement Training Center,
Bloomington, November 15, 1985.
|
| |
Remarks, Agent In-service Training Session, Bureau of
Criminal Apprehension, December 13, 1985.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.1F | 3 |
Remarks, Luncheon to Encourage Pro Bono Programs in
Minnesota, February 12, 1986.
|
| |
Interviewer's comments, Bio-Medical Ethics Workshop,
March 19, 1986. 2 folders
|
| | | Also includes materials pertaining to Wahl's participation in a
1985 workshop on bio-medical ethics. |
| |
Keynote address, Women's Law Caucus Program on Women in
the House, Women in the Courts, William Mitchell College of Law, April 10,
1986.
|
| | | Includes a version of this speech as published under the title
"Some Reflections on Women and the Judiciary," in Law and
Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice, 4 (May 1986). |
| |
Remarks, Minnesota Association of Legal Secretaries
Annual Meeting, April 26, 1986.
|
| |
"My Life on the Court," Horizon 100, July 15,
1986.
|
| |
"In Praise of Books," Washington County Friends of the
Library Annual Meeting, September 23, 1986.
|
| |
Lecture notes on the appellate process, William Mitchell
College of Law, October 2, 1986.
|
| |
"In the Best Interests of the Child," Minnesota
Association of Guardians Ad Litem, St. Cloud, Minn., October 18,
1986.
|
| |
Keynote address, Conference on Women and the Law:
Finding Your Way Through the System, Minnesota Women's Consortium, Minnesota
Women Lawyers, and Chrysalis, October 25, 1986.
|
| |
"Our Joint Responsibility for Justice," Minneapolis
Ministerial Association, November 3, 1986.
|
| |
Swearing-in of Joan Anderson Growe as Secretary of
State, January 5, 1987.
|
| |
Welcome and greetings, Women and Citizenship Conference:
A Bicentennial View of the Constitution, Women Historians of the Midwest,
Macalester College, March 7, 1987.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.1F | 3 |
"E Pluribus Unum: A Bicentennial View of Constitutional
Concerns," Minnesota Council for the Social Studies, March 12,
1987.
|
| | | This speech was also presented as "The Unfinished Business of
the U.S. Constitution" before the 4th annual conference for State of Minnesota
managers and career executive service, June 23, 1987. |
| |
Remarks on the celebration of the ten year anniversary
of The Oneida/Community College Partnership, West 7th Community Center, St.
Paul, Minn., March 27, 1987.
|
| |
"The Supreme Court's View of the New Rules," Attorney
General's Seminar on the Application of the Minnesota Rules of Professional
Conduct to Government Attorneys, May 28, 1987.
|
| |
["The First League Out From Land"], Carleton College
commencement, Northfield, Minn., June 13, 1987.
|
| | | Wahl's response upon receiving an honorary doctorate of law
degree. |
| |
Alice Seymour Memorial Lecture, White Bear Unitarian
Church, June 14, 1987.
|
| |
Remarks, Legal Assistance to the Disadvantaged (LAD)
Luncheon Meeting, July 14, 1987.
|
| |
"The Role of the Accreditation Process in the Making of
the American Lawyer," American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Legal Education
and Admissions to the Bar Annual Meeting, San Francisco [August 10, 1987].
2 folders.
|
| | | Includes the handwritten text of Wahl's opening remarks and an
ABA transcript of all remarks given during the meeting. |
| |
Remarks, Chicago-Kent College of Law Centennial
Convocation, September 10, 1987.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.1F | 3 |
"The Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Education:
What Does it Mean to Us?," September 15, 1987 and February 19,
1988.
|
| | | Includes the text of a speech presented to the Diamond Path
Elementary School, Rosemount, Minn., in 1987, and to the Brimhall Elementary
School, Roseville, Minn., in 1988. |
| |
Remarks, 10/20 and 75 Year Anniversary Celebration of
Commitment to Justice through Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services
(SMRLS), Legal Assistance of Ramsey County (LARC), and the Legal Aid Department
of Family Services of St. Paul, September 19, 1987.
|
| |
Remarks, National Conference on Professional Skills and
Legal Education, ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar,
Albuquerque, October 16, 1987.
|
| | | For additional materials regarding remarks Wahl made at this
conference, see American Bar Association: Skills
Training Committee. |
| |
Remarks on the retirement of George M. Scott, October
30, 1987.
|
| |
"Constitutional Concerns: A Bicentennial View,"
Stillwater Senior High School October 22, 1987.
|
| |
"Approval of Law Schools: The ABA's Public Role,"
December 1987.
|
| | | Written for the "Public Service Profiles" column of the
ABA Journal. |
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.1F | 3 |
"Economic Reality and Legal Education," American
Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, Miami Beach, Fla., January 9,
1988.
|
| |
[Work of the Supreme Court (talking points)], Washington
County Bar Association, Stillwater, Minn., February 27, 1988.
|
| |
Opening remarks, National Conference on Legal Education
for a Changing Profession, ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the
Bar, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, March 25-27, 1988. 2 folders.
|
| |
Remarks, Woman officer of the year award, Women in
Uniform Banquet, Minnesota Association of Women Police, May 12,
1988.
|
| |
Remarks, Conversations with Women Leaders, Women in
Leadership Seminar Series, Humphrey Institute Reflective Leadership Center,
University of Minnesota, May 18, 1988.
|
| |
Remarks, Judicial Conference of the District of Columbia
Courts, June 17, 1988.
|
| |
Tribute, Sedgwick Memorial to Benefit the Minnesota Task
Force for Gender Fairness in the Courts, June 29, 1988.
|
| |
"How Gender Affects Substantive Judicial Actions in
Family Law" (panel presentation), National Association of Women Judges tenth
annual conference, New Orleans, October 9, 1988.
|
| |
Remarks upon Acceptance of the Honorable Ronald E.
Hachey Outstanding Alumnae Award, William Mitchell College of Law, October 14,
1988.
|
| |
Remarks, Displaced Homemakers' Luncheon Anniversary,
October 20, 1988.
|
| |
"On the Dedication of the Reading Room of the Library of
Hamline University School of Law to Mary L. Schilling and Paul K. Schilling,"
Hamline University School of Law, January 24, 1989.
|
| |
Remarks, Women's Career Day, Centennial Senior High
School, Circle Pines, Minnesota, February 8, 1989.
|
| |
"Gender Fairness in the Minnesota Courts," February 19
and March 2, 1989.
|
| | | Includes correspondence regarding remarks made to the First
Unitarian Society of Minneapolis on February 19, as well as correspondence and
the text of remarks made to the Lex Alumnae at the University of Minnesota Law
School on March 2. |
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.1F | 3 |
Testimony [regarding the children's agenda], House
Education Committee, March 29, 1989.
|
| |
"Lawyer Competence: The Requirement of Legal Knowledge
and Skill: The View from the Bench," ABA Regional Conference on Lawyer
Competence, Chicago, April 8, 1989.
|
| |
Testimonial to Douglas K. Amdahl, Law Day Testimonial
Dinner, Fund for the Legal Aid Society, May 3, 1989.
|
| |
"Relationship of Victim-Offender Mediation to the Legal
System" (panel discussion presentation), U.S. Association for Victim-Offender
Mediation Sixth Annual Meeting, St. Paul, June 13, 1989.
|
| |
Remarks, Honors Award Presentation to Justice Douglas K.
Amdahl, Minnesota Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, June 14,
1989.
|
| |
Gender fairness speaking file, September 1989-May
1990.
|
| | | Includes the text of speeches and presentations given to the
following: News Conferences, September 1989; meeting of Minneapolis Business
and Professional Women's Club, October 18, 1989; Minnesota Women's Consortium
pre-event session, February 18, 1990; Project SOAR 10th anniversary dinner,
April 28, 1990; and, White Bear/North Oaks League of Women Voters, May 3, 1990.
The speech presented to the Minnesota Women's Consortium was also presented to
the Minnesota Association of Women in Criminal Justice on March 21, 1990. |
| |
Panel presentation [on family law issues], National
Association of Women Judges 11th Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., November
9-13, 1989.
|
| |
Panel comment on remarks by Dr. Kenneth Goodpaster on
business ethics, Twin West Chamber of Commerce, February 1, 1990.
|
| |
Remarks [regarding the findings and recommendations of
the Supreme Court Task Force on Gender Fairness in the Courts in the area of
domestic violence], House Judiciary Committee, February 26, 1990.
|
| |
"Journey to Leadership," Conversations with Women
Leaders, Women in Leadership Seminar Series, Humphrey Institute Reflective
Leadership Center, March 22, 1990.
|
| |
"Gender Bias in the Courts: Tools for Reform," Women in
Litigation: Reflections of Change Seminar, Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association
and Minnesota Women Lawyers Association, April 6, 1990.
|
| |
Remarks, Supreme Court Admissions to the Bar Ceremony,
May 11, 1990.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.1F | 3 |
Gender Fairness panel discussion, Minnesota Association
for Court Administrators Summer Conference, Brainerd, Minn., June 29,
1990.
|
| |
Remarks, Anoka County Bar Association Retreat, Deerwood,
Minn., September 16, 1990.
|
| |
Remarks, Officer of the Year Awards Luncheon,
International Association of Women Police 28th Annual Training Conference, St.
Paul, Minn., September 18, 1990.
|
| |
Keynote address, Minnesota Justice Foundation Fall
Public Interest Symposium, William Mitchell College of Law, October 24,
1990.
|
| |
Remarks at the investiture of Alexander M. Keith as the
eighteenth Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, November 3,
1990.
|
| |
Toast, Recognition of Chief Justice Peter S. Popovich,
January 10, 1991.
|
| |
Gender Fairness speaking file, January 28-July 25,
1991.
|
| | | Includes the following presentations: Remarks before the Senate
Judiciary Committee, January 28, 1991; Remarks before the Washington County Bar
Association, March 27, 1991; and, "Gender, Race, and Justice" before Horizons
100, July 25, 1991. |
| |
Remarks, Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Women
Physicians, the Women's Health Leadership Trust, and the Minnesota Women
Lawyers, Edina, Minn., February 20, 1991.
|
| |
Remarks, Minnesota Women Lawyers' Forum on Appellate
Practice, St. Paul, Minn., March 22, 1991.
|
| |
"Racial Bias in the Courts," CLE Program for Attorney
General's Staff, April 17, 1991.
|
| |
"The Inclusiveness of Justice," William Mitchell Law
Review Banquet, April 19, 1991.
|
| |
"The Minnesota Supreme Court Task Force on Gender
Fairness in the Courts: Its Findings and Recommendations on Domestic Violence
and the Prosecution of Domestic Assault Cases," Prosecuting Domestic Assault
Cases Seminar, Bloomington, Minn., May 10, 1991.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.2F | 4 |
Remarks, LAD Luncheon Meeting for Summer Associates and
Judicial Clerks, July 9, 1991.
|
| |
Remarks upon accepting the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers
of Achievement Award, ABA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, August 11, 1991.
2 folders.
|
| |
"On the induction of Rebecca Pallmeyer as a United
States Magistrate Judge," Chicago, October 10, 1991.
|
| |
"More Prelude than Token," Women Judges Fund for Justice
Luncheon, National Association for Women Judges Annual Meeting, Chicago,
October 11,1991. 2 folders.
|
| | | Includes correspondence, conference program, and the text of
this speech as presented and as published in the March 1992 newsletter of the
Women's Bar Association of Illinois. |
| |
"Constitutional Issues of Gender and Race," National
Association of Women Judges Annual Meeting, Chicago, October 12,
1991.
|
| |
Introduction of Jackie Fleming for Presentation of
Amicus Founders' Award, November 6, 1991.
|
| |
"Risks of Public Leadership," Distinguished Women's
Advisory Council, College of St. Catherine, March 12, 1992.
|
| |
"Justice and Diversity," St. Croix Valley League of
Women Voters Open Meeting, May 9, 1992.
|
| |
Introduction of Talbot D'Alemberte, Hennepin County Bar
Association Annual Meeting, May 19, 1992.
|
| |
Remarks, Luncheon to Celebrate Attorneys Providing Pro
Bono Representation in Immigration Cases, June 24, 1992.
|
| |
Remarks at the Minnesota State Bar Association
Retirement Dinner for Justice Yetka, October 30, 1992.
|
| |
Swearing-in of Linda Gallant, Hennepin County District
Court, February 5, 1993.
|
| |
"The Task Force on Gender Bias in the Courts:
Establishing a Framework for Change," 2nd National Conference on Gender Bias in
the Courts, Williamsburg, Va., March 18-21, 1993.
|
| |
Panel presentation, 2nd Annual Feminist Symposium,
Northwestern University School of Law, Evanston, Ill., April 7,
1993.
|
| |
"Books Change Lives," 5th Annual Minnesota Book Awards,
Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, April 23, 1993.
|
| |
Keynote address on the findings and recommendations of
the Race Bias Task Force, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association 4th
Annual Midwest Regional Conference, April 24, 1993.
|
| |
"Gender and Justice: Eliminating Gender Bias in the
Courts," New Mexico Judicial Conclave, Albuquerque, June 9, 1993.
|
| |
"Gender Fairness and Those Who Interact with the Court
System in Response to Domestic Violence," Freeborn County Crime Victims Crisis
Center, Albert Lea, Minn., June 18, 1993.
|
| |
Speech excerpt, University of Minnesota Law School
Orientation, August 26, 1993.
|
| |
Remarks upon presentation of the Jack Durfee award to
Douglas Hall, State Public Defender Conference, Two Harbors, Minn., September
10, 1993.
|
| |
Remarks on the gender fairness study focusing on
domestic violence, Family Violence Network Inservice Session for Volunteers,
Lake Elmo, Minn., September 16, 1993.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.2F | 4 |
"Building the Educational Continuum," [ABA] Conference
on the MacCrate Report, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis,
October 1, 1993.
|
| |
"Impact of Gender Bias in Family Law," National
Association of Women Judges Annual Conference, Philadelphia, October 9,
1993.
|
| |
Remarks upon receiving the Sterling Woman Award,
Washington County Women's Political Caucus, October 14, 1993.
|
| |
Remarks, Supreme Court Bar Admissions Ceremony, October
22, 1993.
|
| |
Remarks, Humphrey and Muskie Fellowship Programs, Hubert
H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, November 15,
1993.
|
| |
"Perspectives from the Court with Special Emphasis on
Gender Bias and Race Bias in the Minnesota Court System," North Hennepin
Leadership Academy, December 9, 1993.
|
| |
Toast to Robert MacCrate, January 9, 1994.
|
| |
"Women Making a Difference on the Supreme Court,"
Leaders of Today and Tomorrow Seminar, January 14, 1994.
|
| |
Comments on the panel: Conflict and Reconciliation of
Personal Values and Professional Ethics as Explored Through the Life of
Clarence Darrow, Hamline University School of Law, January 21,
1994.
|
| |
Remarks, Justice in a Diverse Society Program, William
Mitchell College of Law, February 7, 1994.
|
| |
Remarks, Children's Investment Strategy for Violence
Prevention Rally, St. Paul, February 24, 1994.
|
| |
Testimonial, United Way's Distinguished Service Award to
Robert W. Johnson, March 15, 1994.
|
| | | Contains a videocassette recording of the United Way's tribute
to Johnson that includes Wahl's testimonial. |
| |
Panel discussion on the Hennepin County Bar Association
Glass Ceiling Report, Minneapolis, March 16, 1994.
|
| |
Remarks, Report from the Minnesota Supreme Court Gender
Fairness Implementation Committee, Conference of Chief Judges, Bloomington,
Minn., March 18, 1994.
|
| |
Panel Remarks, Helen Hamilton Day, University of North
Dakota Law Women's Caucus, March 25, 1994.
|
| | | Includes the text of remarks made for two panels: Panel 1,
Empowerment of Women in the Courts and Society/Feminist Jurisprudence; and,
Panel 2, Minority Diversity on the Bench. |
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.2F | 4 |
"Gender and Racial Diversity in the Judiciary," ABA
Summit on Ethnic and Racial Bias in the Justice System, Washington, D.C., March
30-31, 1994. 3 folders.
|
| | | Includes program packet and an April 1994 interim report that
summarizes the themes and recommendations brought out during the summit. |
| |
"Words Spoken at the Memorial Service of Jill Kusler
Eckhoff," April 17, 1994.
|
| |
Reading of two poems and an allegory, Library Showcase,
April 21, 1994.
|
| |
"The Impact of Women on the Law," The Year 2001: The Law
and Women Seminar, Minneapolis, April 22, 1994.
|
| |
Remarks, Ramsey County Bar Association Law Day Luncheon,
St. Paul, Minn., May 6, 1994.
|
| |
Remarks [regarding the Governor's special judicial
announcement], Morrison County Courthouse, Little Falls, Minnesota, June 6,
1994.
|
| | | Brief remarks made after Governor Arne Carlson appointed Ed
Stringer and Paul Anderson to replace retiring Justices Wahl and John Simonett
and named Anne Simonett to succeed Paul Anderson as chief judge of the appeals
court. |
| |
Remarks, Legal Advice Clinics Annual Meeting, Hennepin
County Bar Association, Minneapolis, June 21, 1994.
|
| |
Remarks [regarding the report of the Task Force on
Racial Bias in the Judicial System,] Diversity and Public Problem Solving
Faculty Workshop, University of Minnesota, July 13, 1994.
|
| |
"Living the Life of a Woman Judge," Women's Legal
Studies Institute, Chicago-Kent College of Law, July 22, 1994.
|
| |
Response to presentation of the Kutak Award, ABA Annual
Meeting, August 6, 1994.
|
| |
"Out of My Years on the Court," Minnesota Center for
Women in Government, September 28, 1994.
|
| |
Remarks, Campaign for Legal Aid Celebration, November 1,
1994.
|
| |
"The Hogg Years (draft for publication),"
William Mitchell Law Review 21, April
1995.
|
| |
"Our Place in the World," Retired Educators Association
of Minnesota Annual Convention, Brainerd, Minn., October 3-4, 1995.
|
| |
"All the World's A [Page]," Legal Writing Institute
Conference, Seattle, July 20, 1996.
|
| | | Includes the text of this speech as reprinted from
Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing
Institute 3 (1997). |
| |
"Robert J. Sheran as Jurist," Sheran Testimonial Dinner,
Minneapolis, November 20, 1996.
|
| |
"A Great Justice/Company on the Court," Minnesota State
Bar Association Justice Coyne Retirement Dinner, St. Paul, November 21,
1996.
|
| |
Remarks at the funeral of retired Justice M. Jeanne
Coyne, August 10, 1998.
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Minnesota Supreme Court, 1977-1994
|
| Files grouped together under the Minnesota Supreme Court series
are arranged as materials documenting her appointment and investiture, her
elections, and her retirement; background information on court personnel and
law clerks; subject files related to her opinions; two files concerning the
court's support of an intermediate court of appeals; a set related to judicial
appointments that includes background materials on the appointment process as
well as candidate correspondence and resumes; and a set of files pertaining to
each of the committees on which she served. No files regarding her 1990
campaign are evident as Wahl ran uncontested during that election. |
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.3B | 5 |
Appointment:
|
| | |
Correspondence: Recommendations to Governor Perpich,
March-June 1977.
|
| | |
Telephone calls, May-June 1977.
|
| | | | Contains notes of telephone calls regarding Wahl's references
and recommendations to the Governor, a roster of Wahl's appointment committee
members, and drafts for statements made by Wahl to the press. |
| | |
Minnesota Women's Meeting, St. Cloud, June
1977.
|
| | | | See Speeches and Writings for a
sound recording and the text of Wahl's remarks made during this meeting
concerning the announcement of her judicial appointment. |
| | |
Miscellaneous, 1977.
|
| | | | Includes excerpts from Wahl's calendar, an envelope from
Governor Perpich's office containing ballots cast by Perpich and his "kitchen
cabinet" advisors, and Wahl's notes from meetings with the seated justices
prior to her investiture. Also included is a copy of a letter Wahl wrote to
Governor Perpich on March 28, 1977, before she had ever been introduced to him,
voicing her concern about Perpich's proposal to close the state hospitals in
Anoka and Hastings. After her appointment, Wahl discussed this letter in a
meeting with Chief Justice Sheran that resulted in the Chief Justice assigning
her as the liaison to the Supreme Court's Study Commission on the Mentally
Disabled. |
| | |
Correspondence: Congratulatory, June-November 1977.
4 folders.
|
| | |
University Club Reception, June 9, 1977:
|
| | | |
Guest book.
|
| | | |
Photographs.
|
| | |
Community reception, St. Croix Valley Branch of AAUW,
June 22, 1977.
|
| | |
Swearing-In ceremony.
|
| | | | See Speeches and Writings for a
sound recording and the text of Wahl's remarks upon being sworn-in. |
| | |
Swearing-In ceremony: Photographs, October 3, 1977.
2 folders.
|
| | |
News clippings, 1977. 1 folder and 1 scrapbook (dismantled).
|
| |
Elections:
|
| | |
Election, 1978:
|
| | | |
Campaign Committees.
|
| | | |
Campaign Committee: Report of Receipts and
Expenditures, 1980.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.3B | 5 | | |
Campaign Contributions. Restricted.
|
| | | |
Certificate of Election.
|
| | | |
Correspondence.
|
| | | |
Miscellaneous.
|
| | | |
Photographs.
|
| | | |
Press relations.
|
| | | | | Includes copies of completed questionnaires addressing
Wahl's education and qualifications for use by various newspapers and the
League of Women Voters, as well as Wahl's campaign statement issued as a press
release by the Minnesota Lawyers Volunteer Committee to Retain Incumbent Judges
on the Supreme Court. |
| | | |
Radio program, [August 1978].
|
| | | | | Two sound recordings of a listener call-in radio program in
which Wahl participated with two of her opponents, Dan Foley and Jerome J.
Plunkett. |
| | | |
Printed material and campaign ephemera.
|
| | | |
News clippings. 2 folders.
|
| | | |
News clippings: Robert W. Mattson.
|
| | |
Re-election, 1984.
|
| |
Retirement:
|
| | |
Invitations and guest lists, 1994.
|
| | |
Tributes, 1994.
|
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.4F | 6 |
Court Personnel:
|
| | |
Directories and table of succession,
1977-1993.
|
| | |
Law clerks, 1977-1994. Restricted.
|
| | | | Includes rosters, Wahl's remarks on admitting clerks to
office, correspondence from former clerks, articles by former clerk Jane
Larson, and photographs. |
| |
The Court (internal memoranda), 1979-1995.
|
| |
Court Opinions:
|
| | |
Index of the decisions of Justice Rosalie Wahl,
1995.
|
| | |
Final draft of first opinion (State of Minnesota v. Flowers), [1977].
|
| | |
Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1977-1993.
Restricted.
|
| | | | Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding public
reaction to Wahl's opinions in various cases. |
| | |
Publication, 1980-1994.
|
| | | | Contains correspondence from Lawyers Cooperative Publishing
Company (Rochester, New York) and from West Publishing Company (St. Paul,
Minn.) regarding the publication of opinions authored by Wahl. |
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Adoption, 1979. Restricted.
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| | | | Includes correspondence and internal court memoranda regarding
the adoption reversal case of Judith and Jeffrey Resner
v. Catholic Charities (Case nos. 48872, 49861, 49605, 48898; Special
nos. S-1251, S-1268, S1546, S-1550, S-1624, S-1758). |
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Blood transfusions/Jehovah's Witnesses,
1978.
|
| | | | Includes correspondence from the Legal Aid Society of
Minneapolis requesting a written memorandum of the decision in the case of
Wenonah Johnson. |
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Costs/Attorney fees on appeal/Expungement, 1989.
Restricted.
|
| | | | Internal court memoranda and Wahl's notes from discussions
with Supreme Court justices regarding court-ordered awards of attorney's fees.
Also includes case material related to State of Minnesota
v. P.A.D., Case no. C5-88-1792-(S-9111). |
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.4F | 6 | |
Defamation, 1985-1986, 1990.
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| | | | Includes research material and Wahl's opinion in
Jadwin v. Minneapolis Star and Tribune (Case no.
C5-82-1519). Also includes materials regarding Lewis v.
Equitable Life Assurance Society (Case no. C8-84-1065). |
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Election cases, 1979. Restricted.
|
| | | | Includes court memoranda, case filings, and Wahl's notes from
discussions with the court justices regarding Pavlak v.
Growe (Case no. 50142). |
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Environmental cases, 1978-1979. Restricted.
|
| | | | Includes court memoranda and Wahl's concurring opinion in
State of Minnesota by Skeie v. Minnkota Power
Cooperative (Case no. 48847). |
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Family, 1988.
|
| | | | Correspondence with Arvonne S. Fraser of the Center on Women
and Public Policy at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute regarding a working paper
on the status of U.S. families and the Minnesota Supreme Court's interpretation
of "family" as defined in Costley v. Caromin House
(Case nos. 81-279 and 81-403). |
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Family Law:
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Child custody, 1983-1989.
|
| | | | | Includes materials pertaining to In re
Pikula (Case no. C6-83-1393), a ruling by Wahl that established the
primary caretaker presumption; Gerardy v. Gerardy
(Appellate Case no. 9-86-284); In the Matter of the
Welfare of J.J.B. (Case nos. C8-84-1647 and C4-84-2178); and,
In the Matter of the Welfare of C.D., C.T., M.T., and
S.T. (Appellate Case no. C2-86-112). |
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Child support, 1985-1987.
|
| | | | | Includes background material and Wahl's opinion in
In re Katz (Case no. C4-85-1381). |
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Maintenance, 1980-1989. 2 folders.
|
| | | | | Includes background and case material pertaining to
McClelland v. McClelland (Appellate Case no.
C1-86-621) Laumann v. Laumann (Appellate Case no.
CX-86-1086), Nelson v. Nelson (Appellate Case no.
C7-86-1577), and Nardini v. Nardini (Case no.
C1-85-1421). |
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.4F | 6 | | |
Maintenance and child custody,
1984-1986.
|
| | | | | Contains correspondence regarding the court's decisions in
In re Pikula, McClelland v.
McClelland, and Abuzzahab v. Abuzzahab. |
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Minnesota child custody and marital property
decisions, 1983-1993.
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Paternity Cases:
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Appointment of counsel, 1978.
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Blood tests, 1980, 1989.
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Fetal homicide, 1985, 1990.
|
| | | | Contains correspondence regarding the Court's decision in
Ramsey County v. Soto (Case no. C1-85-1161) as
well as the opinion issued in Olmsted County v.
Merrill (Case no. C7-89-766). |
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Home education, 1985, 1987.
|
| | | | Includes a copy of Wahl's opinion in Itasca County v. Jeanne Newstrom, Case no.
CO-83-1325. |
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Land use, 1987-[1989].
|
| | | | Includes a copy of Wahl's opinion in Swanson v. City of Bloomington (Case no. C3-86-782). |
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Lawyers Professional Responsibility Rule 25,
1984.
|
| | | | Includes bench memoranda, correspondence, news clippings and
Wahl's notes. The file concerns separate challenges raised by both Kenneth
Tilsen (counsel for Honeywell Project) and Norman Perl (attorney representing
Dalkon Shield plaintiffs) contending that Rule 25 was unconstitutionally vague
and denied due process. |
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Minnesota State Bar Association: Pro bono,
1991.
|
| | | | Includes internal memoranda, case filings, and Wahl's notes
from a conference with Supreme Court Justices regarding the association's
petition against requiring attorneys to report pro bono legal services (Case
no. C9-81-1206). |
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Miscellaneous orders and affidavits, 1979-1995.
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Morris, Kathleen R., 1985-1987.
|
| | | | Includes internal memorandum, Wahl's notes, and case filings
concerning In the Matter of the Application for the
Discipline of Kathleen R. Morris (Case no.C1-86-1770). |
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News clippings, 1978-1994.
|
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Pornography, 1979.
|
| | | | Includes 1979 correspondence from Duluth residents concerning
the appeal of bookstore clerks found guilty of violating City of Duluth
ordinances 8019 and 8020. |
| Location | Box |
| 144.B.18.5B | 7 | |
Pro se representation, 1986-1988. 2 folders.
|
| | | | Includes internal court memoranda, case filings, and Wahl's
dissent regarding access to trial transcripts in the state law library by
indigent inmates as considered in State of Minnesota v.
Seifert, Case nos. C1-87-452, C7-88-983. |
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Sentencing guidelines, 1982.
|
| | | | Contains correspondence regarding the Court's sentencing
reduction in the criminal sexual conduct case of Richard Partlow. |
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State Constitutions: Issues of gender and race,
1977-1992. 3 folders.
|
| | | | Includes various published articles, opinions from various
state courts, and Wahl's opinion in State v.
Russell (Case no. C3-91-22 and C7-91-203). Some of the background
material was used for Wahl's panel remarks on state constitutional issues at
the National Association of Women Judges on October 12, 1991. |
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State vs. Bakken, Case nos. 50980 and 50981,
1980.
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Intermediate Court of Appeals, 1980-1984. 3 folders.
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Judicial Appointments (Process):
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| | | Includes news clippings and correspondence regarding efforts by
the Minnesota Women Lawyers, the Minnesota Women's Political Caucus, and the
Federation of Women Lawyers' Judicial Screening Process to have women appointed
as judges and as members of nominating and selection commissions. |
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State, 1978-1988.
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