Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

present

Women’s Human Rights Speaker Series 

Presented by the Honorable Mary Lou Klas

Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 12:00 P.M.

at Briggs and Morgan, PA, 2400 IDS Center, in Minneapolis

(lunch will be served)

In July, 2000 Judge Mary Lou Klas retired from fourteen years on Minnesota’s Second District trial court bench.  As a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court’s Committee on Gender Fairness in the Courts since 1989, Judge Klas chaired the Committee’s Family Law and Domestic Violence Curriculum Committee.  She has served as adjunct professor of law at William Mitchell College of Law, and chair of the Family Law Section of the Minnesota Bar Association and the Minnesota Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.  She received a Distinguished Humanitarian Award from the Ramsey County Bar Association, a Pro Bono Public Attorney Award from the Minnesota Bar Association, a Distinguished Alumna Award from William Mitchell College of Law and a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN.

This is the fourth in a series of lunchtime speakers dedicated to improving awareness of women’s human rights issues.  Please join us the first Thursday of each month for a new presentation.  For more information, please contact Amelia at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.

Please R.S.V.P. to Amelia Buttress at Minnesota Advocates for

 Human Rights by noon on Tuesday, February 5th.

Phone: (612) 341-3302 ext. 107  Email: abuttress@mnadvocates.org