The University of Texas at Austin   School of Law

Past Speakers

Past speakers at the Women’s Power Summit include the following judges, CEOs, general counsel, academics, law firm managing partners, government leaders, non-profit leaders, and authors:

  • The Hon. Sandra Day O’Connor, Justice, United States Supreme Court (Ret.)
  • Ida Abbott, Author, Women on Top: The Woman’s Guide to Leadership and Power in Law Firms
  • Linda L. Addison, Partner-in-Charge, New York, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P
  • Kim J. Askew, Partner, K&L Gates
  • Susan L. Blount, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Prudential
  • Claudette Christian, Co-Chair of the Board, Hogan Lovells
  • Carla Christofferson, Managing Partner, Los Angeles Office, O’Melveny & Myers LLP
  • Mary B. Cranston, Senior Partner and Chair Emeritus Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and a member of the Board of Directors of Visa Inc., Juniper Networks, Inc. and GrafTech International, Ltd.
  • Katrina Dewey, CEO, Lawdragon Inc.
  • The Honorable Fernande R.V. Duffly, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
  • Robin J. Ely, Ph.D., Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community, Harvard Business School
  • Gloria Feldt, Author of No Excuses:  9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power
  • The Hon. Carolyn Dineen King, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
  • Catherine Lamboley, General Counsel, Shell Oil Company (Ret.)
  • Ilene Lang, President and CEO, Catalyst
  • Roberta D. Liebenberg, Senior Partner, Fine, Kaplan and Black, R.P.C. and former Chair of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession
  • The Hon. Barbara M.G. Lynn, United States District Court, Northern District of Texas
  • Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, State of Illinois
  • Michele Coleman Mayes, Vice President and General Counsel, New York Public Library
  • The Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
  • Paula Monopoli, Professor of Law, Marbury Research Professor and Founding Director, Women, Leadership & Equality Program, University of Maryland School of Law
  • Linda Strite Murnane, Colonel, USAF (Ret.)
  • Ellen Ostrow, Ph.D., CMC, Founding Principal, Lawyers Life Coach
  • Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer, Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Author of Power:  Why Some People Have It—And Others Don’t
  • Deborah L. Rhode, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford University Law School
  • Patricia Sellers, Editor at Large, Fortune
  • Laura Stein, Senior Vice President – General Counsel, The Clorox Company
  • Stephanie A. Streeter, Former CEO, United States Olympic Committee and Former Chairman and CEO, Banta Corporation
  • Christine L. Williams, Ph.D., Department Chair and Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas
  • Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law, 1066 Foundation Chair and Director of the Center for WorkLife Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
  • Marie C. Wilson, Founder and President Emeritus, The White House Project
  • The Hon. Diane P. Wood, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit
  • Kay Bailey Hutchison, United States Senator from Texas

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