Mary Murphy Schroeder: She broke barriers from the start Wednesday, August 21, 2019

U.S. Courts: "In 1979, Mary Murphy Schroeder joined a historic class of women judges who transformed the federal judiciary, but her law career nearly ended before it began. The night before her first final law exam at the University of Chicago, Schroeder collapsed and was hospitalized with a severe kidney infection."

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