Judith Pomarlen Vladeck was a prominent American labor lawyer and civil rights advocate, particularly on behalf of women.
12 Facts About Judith Vladeck
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Judith Vladeck graduated from Hunter College in 1945 and received a law degree from Columbia University in 1948.
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Judith Vladeck married lawyer Stephen Charney Vladeck on February 22,1948, and had three children.
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Judith Vladeck turned her attention to workplace discrimination with the advent of new civil rights laws and rise of the women's movement.
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Judith Vladeck traced salary histories for more than 5,000 female faculty members.
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In one of the "crowning moments of her career" Judith Vladeck represented the not-for-profit organization Nontraditional Employment for Women in a case against the contractors building ~ what was to become the New York City neighborhood known as Battery Park City.
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Judith Vladeck was named one of "New York's 75 Most Influential Women in Business" in Crain's New York Business in 1996 and one of the Best Lawyers in New York by New York Magazine in 1995.
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Judith Vladeck was profiled in the New York Times, The Institutional Investor, More and Mirabella Magazines, and featured in Stud's Terkel's book Coming of Age.
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Judith Vladeck taught employment and labor law at Fordham Law School and Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
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Vladeck had two sons, one of whom, Bruce C Vladeck is a health administrator, and one daughter, Anne, who is currently a partner in the Vladeck law firm.
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In 1998, Vladeck received the Edith I Spivack Award from the New York County Lawyers' Association's Women's Rights Committee, Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the ABA in 2002, the Edith I Spivack Award from the New York County Lawyers Association in 1998, Outstanding Achievement Award from the National Network of Women Union Lawyers in 1998, ORT Jurisprudence Award in 1996, Hunter's Professional Achievement Award, and inducted into the Hunter College Hall of Fame.
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Judith Vladeck died on January 8,2007, of an infection in New York City.