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Superwomen JDs and What You Can Learn From Them: Featuring Susan Court of Washington, D.C.

By Noha

Bio for this week?s superwoman JD Susan Court: Susan J. Court was appointed by Chairman Joseph Kelliher in November 2005 to serve as Director of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Enforcement. Joining the Commission as an attorney-advisor in 1982, Ms. Court has worked in every area of its jurisdiction (natural gas, electric, oil, and hydropower). She served as a commissioner's assistant and executive assistant to the chairman before becoming a senior agency manager in 1986, when she was appointed Associate General Counsel for Gas and Oil, leading the Commission's legal staff responsible for developing and implementing the agency's natural gas open access program. Ms. Court subsequently served as Deputy Solicitor, Associate General Counsel for General and Administrative Law, Designated Agency Ethics Official, and Chief of Staff. Immediately before her appointment as OE Director, she was on assignment in the European Union.

1. How has being a woman affected your career or legal education?

Being a woman has had no discernable effect on my career or legal education.  Put another way, men whom I?ve encountered at school or during my career were seemingly given opportunities that were also available to me.  Of course, I worked very hard ? not to compete with men ? but because I set high standards for myself.   It is how I was reared.

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Full post as published by Ms. JD on March 22, 2009 (boomark / email).