WINTER 2022
Writing about the 2021 annual conference as the conference chair feels a little like bragging about your child. But that’s okay. I hope that whenever any of the people we love do good things, we celebrate them. So, let me take a moment and celebrate the Nashville conference.* By Hon. Barbara D. Holmes 2021 Conference Chair
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n Wednesday, everyone gathered with a special welcome to our international sisters. We were treated to a percussion/dance performance by young artists from the Global Education Center. Nashville Vice-Mayor Jim Shulman extended greetings on behalf of the city and delighted us with stories of his grandmother, a 1911 Boston University Law School graduate, who was the first woman appointed to the bench in Massachusetts in 1930 and who would walk the halls of the nursing home where she lived in later years, “sentencing” other residents. Our day on Thursday began with a march by suffragists reminding us of the generations of women who fought for woman suffrage, accompanied by local Juvenile Court Judge Sheila Calloway with a roof-raising
