DATE: 7 p.m., Feb. 21, 2008.

EVENT: National Public Radio’s award-winning legal correspondent, Nina Totenberg, will speak at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre—which is in the Michigan League, located at the corner of Fletcher and North University streets—about “The Supreme Court and Its Impact on You.” She will discuss the court and its impact on women and women’s issues in the United States.

Totenberg’s coverage of legal affairs and the Supreme Court has won her widespread recognition. She is a regular panelist on “Inside Washington,” a weekly syndicated public affairs television program produced in the nation’s capital.

In 1991, her ground-breaking report about University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill’s allegations of sexual harassment by Judge Clarence Thomas led the Senate Judiciary Committee to re-open Thomas’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings to consider Hill’s charges. NPR received the prestigious Peabody Award for its gavel-to-gavel coverage—anchored by Totenberg—of both the original hearings and the inquiry into Anita Hill’s allegations, and for Totenberg’s reports and exclusive interview with Hill.

Totenberg won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton in 1988 for her coverage of Supreme Court nominations. Totenberg has been honored eight times by the American Bar Association for continued excellence in legal reporting, and has received a number of honorary degrees.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

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SPONSORS: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Department of Women’s Studies, the Center for the Education of Women Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Howard R. Marsh Center for the Study of Journalist Performance, the Law School, the Provost’s Office, and Rackham Graduate School, with support from the Departments of American Culture, Communications Studies, and Psychology; the Schools of Public Health and Social Work; and the Center for Law, Ethics, and Health.