After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School you served with Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, the Center for Law and Social Policy, and the National Senior Citizens Law Center. Your work in the last of these roles on private pension issues that affect the economic security of women provided a natural bridge to your succeeding efforts as senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. While there you vigorously pursued gender equity in education and employment and specialized in enforcement of Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in educational institutions that receive federal funds. The most visible of the cases you litigated centered on athletic programs for women at colleges and universities. They include the ruling, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, that forced Colorado State University to expand its athletic opportunities for women—considered one of the most important rulings ever on Title IX. And your book, Breaking Down Barriers: A Legal Guide to Title IX, is considered the definitive guide to the subject. Since 1994, however, you have been able to affect the system from the inside, as President Clinton’s appointment as legal counsel to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. There, as legal representative and policy advisor, you are able to continue in new and effective ways the admirable focus that your entire career has maintained on making the American legal system more accessible to people of all segments of our society.