Welcome. Orning and the subcommittee on Higher Education and workforce investment will come to order. We are happy you are here. I know a quorum is present. I want to ask can sense they be permitted to participate in todays hearing with the understanding your questions will come after all members have completed their questions. The committee is eating to hear testimony on engines of economic mobility. The Critical Role of Community Colleges, historically lacked minorities serving and institutions preparing students for success. ,ursuant to Committee Rules Opening Statements are limited to the chair in the Ranking Member and this allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provide all members with adequate time to ask questions. I recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. We will examine the Critical Role of historically black colleges and universities, Tribal Colleges and universities, and committee colleges in providing low income students and students o
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You to this extraordinary audience. These are the next generation of Public Interest lawyers. I have come from all over the country to interview for Public Interest jobs, and to hear the two of you speak. We are thrilled to have you here. I will turn it over to judge williams. [applause] judge williams good afternoon. Good afternoon. Judge williams i know we can do better than that. This is justice rbg. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Judge williams you can imagine how excited we were that Justice Ginsburg said yes. With publics been interest enterprises. Lifeevoted so much of her to making things better in the world using her legal career. She said yes to this conference and career fair, life yes to having this conversation, and she is a rockstar as you know. To understand how it is you became such a force, we begin at the beginning. You grew up in brooklyn. Wonderful parents. Your mom did complete high school, your dad didnt. Your roots are in russia and austria. Your mother give you
Justice ginsburg does not need any introduction. Even if she did, just williams will be doing it over the next hour. Personl have a fabulous will lead you through the phenomenal career. I would like to introduce you to judge williams. She is also known as the mother of equal Justice Works because in 1991, six years after she joined the bench can you believe it . She is so young looking, it is incredible. [inaudible] [laughter] in 1991, judge williams awarded the leftover funds in an antitrust case, which gave us the funding to create our postgraduate fellowship program. At the time, seven fellowships and now, 300. Judge williams, thank you. We are forever indebted to you. [applause] judge williams was the first attorney of color in the u. S. Attorneys office in chicago. She was a division chief and and and then served on the u. S. District court. She is the and only judge of first color on the u. S. Court of appeals for the seventh circuit. [applause] judge williams founded just the be
Sunday, november 18th and 19th, on cspan2. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her life and legal career, including her advocacy work on equality rights and social justice. U. S. Court of appeals judge ann williams moderated the event. Hello, everybody. My name is david stern, and i am the very proud executive director of equal justice works. Thank you all for being here. I am very excited. Are you excited . [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter ] i thought so. I saw you in the hall. You guys are awesome. Just to remind you, after a couple of minutes, well put our phones down. Just wanted to make sure were clear on that one. Of course, were so honored to have Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg here to have a conversation with Ann Claire Williams from the 7th Circuit Court of appeals. So Justice Ginsburg does not need any introduction. Even if she did, judge williams will be doing it over the past hour. So youll have a fabulous person to lead you through this. But i would like to introdu