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Jill Wine-Banks, "The Watergate Girl"
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1:03:34Now PlayingJill Wine-Banks discusses her memoir, "The Watergate Girl", at Politics and Prose.
Wine-Banks, an MSNBC legal analyst, completed law school in 1968 and started her career as one of the first female attorneys in the DOJ’s organized crime section. This was soon followed by a post as an assistant Watergate special prosecutor under Leon Jaworski, which earned Wine-Banks the nickname “the mini-skirted lawyer.” As she recalls in this vivid and timely memoir, such sexism was par for the course in 1970s Washington—as was harassment that included having her phone tapped and her house burgled. But Wine-Banks persevered, showing her professional skill by cross-examining Nixon’s secretary, Rose Mary Woods, about the famous gap in the Watergate tapes, and by becoming the first woman to serve as general counsel of the U.S. Army (1977-1980) and, later, chief operating officer of the American Bar Association.
Wine-Banks is in Conversation with Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post.
Jill Wine-Banks is an MSNBC legal analyst, appearing regularly on the network’s primetime and daytime shows. She began her career as an organized crime prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, which led to her selection as one of three assistant Watergate special prosecutors in the obstruction of justice trial against President Nixon's top aides. She has also served as general counsel of the U.S. Army, solicitor general and deputy attorney general of the state of Illinois, and executive vice president and chief operating officer of the American Bar Association. In each case, she was the first woman to hold the position. A graduate of the University of Illinois and the Columbia Law School, she lives in Chicago.
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