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Jackie Speier Lecture On Women In The Law & The Rights Of Women Under Law
August 27 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Jackie Speier (’76)
Bio: Recently retired Congresswoman Jackie Speier (pronounced SPEAR) is known as a fearless fighter for women’s equality, LGBTQ rights, and the disenfranchised. After 40 years in public office, she has returned home to campaign against childhood poverty in San Mateo County—the richest county in California yet home to 27,000 children in poverty. She founded the Jackie Speier Foundation and seeded it with $1 million from her campaign. With the county, Jackie has embarked on an ambitious effort to aid MediCal infants born in San Mateo County with a $300 per month baby bonus for 3 years. She recently was elected to the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, a post she held 44 years ago. Jackie has dedicated her life to eliminating government corruption, protecting whistleblowers, eliminating sexual assault in the military, and working to strengthen America’s national and economic security. She was named to Newsweek’s list of 150 “Fearless Women” in the world and one of “Politico’s 50” most influential people in American politics for bringing the Me Too reckoning to Congress.
Barbara Boxer
Bio: Barbara Boxer served as California’s United States Senator from 1993 to 2017. She previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives for five terms after serving as a Marin County Supervisor for six years.
Boxer is known as a fierce fighter for California and its people. She is also known as a consistent advocate for women, children, families, workers, the environment, and equal rights for all.
She successfully passed laws that established the first federal funding for after school programs, permanently protected one million acres of beautiful California wilderness, ensured drinking water is safe for the most vulnerable, was one of 23 Senators to oppose the war in Iraq and was a go-to leader on abortion rights.
Boxer’s career is marked by a number of firsts: first woman ever elected to the 2nd Supervisorial District in Marin County; first woman ever elected President of the Marin Board of Supervisors; first woman ever elected to the House of Representatives for California’s 6th Congressional District; in 1992 made history with Dianne Feinstein as the first 2 women ever elected to the U.S. Senate from any state in the union; first woman to chair the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee; first woman to chair the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee.
Boxer graduated from Brooklyn College in New York State in 1962 where she majored in economics. She worked as a stockbroker before moving to California with her husband in 1965. Boxer has been married to her husband Stewart Boxer since 1962. They have two married children and four grandchildren.
Upon her retirement from the U.S. Senate in 2017, Boxer donated her papers to UC Berkeley, where she gives an annual Boxer lecture, interviewing strong woman leaders. She continues to make speeches across the county, taught at USC Center for the Political Future where she is currently an advisor. She appears bi-monthly on Spectrum TV in Southern California, is a strategic consultant as co-chair of ACTUM, LLC and volunteers for a number of children’s organizations. She is proud to serve on the Board of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate where she works with a number of former colleagues to help preserve democracy and the American dream.
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