When a moderator at an event sponsored by the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society in 2019 asked 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Johnnie B. Rawlinson what she wished she had known earlier in her career, Rawlinson had a ready answer.
“I wish I had known years ago that I could be a lot more aggressive and still be successful,” she said. “I think for the first generation of women lawyers, many of us thought that we had... (continued)