The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Deborah A. Batts.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (10 video files (4 hr., 51 min., 52 sec.)) : sound, color
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2007.239
Subjects

Other author/creatorBatts, Deborah A., 1947-2020, interviewee.
Other author/creatorJones, Adrienne (Interviewer), interviewer.
Other author/creatorBurghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Deborah A. Batts
Portion of title Honorable Deborah A. Batts
Abstract U.S. District Court Judge Deborah A. Batts was born on April 13, 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned her B.A. degree in government from Radcliffe College in 1969; and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1972. Batts then worked at the corporate law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore before becoming an assistant U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York in 1979. In 1984, she became the first African American faculty member at Fordham University's School of Law. In 1994, Batts was named U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New York by President Clinton. She oversaw a number of high profile cases, including the trial of al-Qaeda co-founder Mamdouh Mahmud Salim and the widely publicized case against EPA Chief Christine Todd Whitman. Batts is active in the New York City Bar Association, Metropolitan Black Bar Association and Lesbian and Gay Law Association of Greater New York.
CreditsVideographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Performer Adrienne Jones, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2007 August 15.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2007 September 20.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2007.239 HistoryMakers