Eleanor Jackson Piel
Eleanor Jackson Piel (September 22, 1920 – November 26, 2022) was an American civil rights lawyer. She entered civil rights law after United States v. Masaaki Kuwabara, a case where interned Japanese Americans were tried for declining to be drafted. She practiced law until she was in her early 90s.[1][2][3]
Education
Jackson attended the University of California, Los Angeles and then transferred to University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a BA in 1940. She applied to the Berkeley law school, but was was denied admission. She was told by the interviewing dean that “females always had nervous breakdowns.” She attended the University of Southern California school of law for one year and then transferred to Berkeley where she graduated from in 1943. She was the only woman in the graduating class.[1]
Jackson clerked for Judge Louis E. Goodman of the Federal District Court in San Francisco.[1]
Awards and honors
In 2013, she was awarded the Norman Redlich Capital Defense Distinguished Service Award from the Committee on Capital Punishment of the New York City Bar Association.[1][4]
Personal life and death
In 1955, she married Gerard Piel. Together they had a daughter.[1]
Jackson Piel died on November 26, 2022, at the age of 102.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e Fox, Margalit (November 28, 2022). "Eleanor Jackson Piel, Lawyer Who Fought Capital Convictions, Dies at 102" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "One Tough Case". Berkeley Law.
- ^ a b "Eleanor Jackson Piel, lawyer who challenged wrongful convictions, dies at 102". The Washington Post. 2022-11-30. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Eleanor Jackson Piel and James W. B. Benkard Receive City Bar's Norman Redlich Capital Defense Awards". nycbar.org. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
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