Swift V. Boalt
Swift was originally denied tenure at Boalt Hall in 1987. She initiated a suit against the University alleging sex discrimination in her tenure review process. The suit was settled with an agreement to leave the tenure decision to an outside independent review committee of distinguished academics. This committee unanimously recommended that she be promoted to tenure, which finally happened in the fall of 1989.
She wrote about this experience in Becoming a Plaintiff, 4 Berkeley Women's L.J. 245 (1990).
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