Dorothy Nelson Interview

Dorothy Wright Nelson, interviewed by John G. (Tom) Tomlinson Jr.
H. Dale Hilton Living History Project

Dorothy Nelson, LLM 1956, was dean of the USC Gould School of Law from 1968 to 1980 - the first woman dean of a leading US law school. She left in 1980 to become a judge on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She was interviewed in 2005.

Learn more about the USC Emeriti Center's H. Dale Hilton Living History Project: http://www.usc.edu/org/emeriti_center/livinghistory.php

Read about the history of the USC Gould School of Law: http://lawweb.usc.edu/who/history/

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