PANELISTS: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; former Counsel in several Supreme Court cases; Pamela Karlan, Professor, Stanford Law School; Co-Director, Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic; Patricia Millett, Partner and Co-Chair of Supreme Court Practice, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP; former Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States; Virginia Seitz, Partner, Supreme Court and Appellate Practice, Sidley Austin LLP. MODERATOR: Pamela Harris, Executive Director, Georgetown Law Supreme Court Institute; Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center.

The panelists discussed their career paths to appellate practices and their experiences as Supreme Court advocates and offered guidance to other women who hope to practice before the Court. They will also take on the issue of gender diversity in the Supreme Court Bar, addressing obstacles to fuller participation by women and ways to increase the number of women lawyers in Supreme Court practice.

SPONSORS: Georgetown Law Supreme Court Institute, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, and Women's Legal Alliance.