Shirley Abrahamson’s rise from Indiana’s top law student to Wisconsin’s most prominent judge
Abrahamson says she never faced gender discrimination at IU – until graduation approached. The school’s dean suggested she leave the state to begin her career. “I was quite surprised,” she says. “He didn’t think the Law School could place me except, perhaps, as a law librarian in a law firm.”
Tom Alesia
November 25, 2002