Life
Born and raised in Clairton, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Bekavac was a 1965 graduate of Clairton High School. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College in 1969 and from Yale Law School in 1973.
She was one of four Swarthmore College team members on the weekly College Bowl "quiz" show during the 1968-1969 season that defeated competing teams for five consecutive weeks. She was also a Watson Fellow, traveling in South Asia and Eastern Europe. At Yale Law School, she was a classmate of president-to-be Bill Clinton.
She practiced law in Los Angeles, and was a partner at the firm now known as Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP; she was Director of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, and was counselor to the president of Dartmouth College prior to her appointment as president of Scripps College.
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