Cornell: Alumna Broke Ground for Women as Nevada Supreme Court Justice
September 01, 2021
September 01, 2021
ITHACA, New York, Sept. 1 (TNSOps) -- Cornell University issued the following news:
By Kathy Hovis
The Nevada county commissioner who told Miriam Shearing '56 that women don't belong in the courtroom could never have predicted how those words would motivate Shearing throughout her life, eventually leading her to the state's top judicial position, chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court.
"I knew I wouldn't get an appointment (from . . .
By Kathy Hovis
The Nevada county commissioner who told Miriam Shearing '56 that women don't belong in the courtroom could never have predicted how those words would motivate Shearing throughout her life, eventually leading her to the state's top judicial position, chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court.
"I knew I wouldn't get an appointment (from . . .