A petition was started yesterday on change.com to nominate Prof. Anita Hill for the Supreme Court.
Prof. Hill is an extremely respected, articulate Professor of Social Policy, Law and Women's with expertise in civil rights, international commerce, and bankruptcy. She is presently at Brandeis University, in the School for Social Policy and Management, and is a lawyer with a civil rights & employment practices group. Last year, the Brandeis Board of Trustees unanimously voted to recognize Hill with a promotion to University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's Studies; University Professor is one of Brandeis’ most prestigious academic honors. [1]
For those of you who are too young to remember her, or were somewhere on a desert island with no communications in 1991, I suggest that you do a bit of reading on the internet. The highlights: as a young lawyer, she had worked as an assistant to Clarence Thomas, first in the Education Dept., then in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. When the FBI routinely called her about Thomas, her conscience would not let her hide the facts: Thomas had sexually harassed her. Afraid of losing her job, she hadn't spoken out at the time. The all-male Judiciary Committee called her to testify, and they subjected her to the worst kind of smears and ridicule. The whole story is summarized nicely on Wikipedia.