Born: September 16, 1928
Torrington, Connecticut
Died: January 12, 2019
Washington, D.C.
Interviews conducted by
Stephen J. Pollak, Esq.
Honorable Patricia M. Wald
Oral History Text & Documentation
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- Complete Oral History Package
- Table of Contents
- Agreement: Honorable Patricia M. Wald
- Wald Family Authorization to Publish
- Agreement: Stephen J. Pollak, Esq.
- Text of First Interview: March 24, 1992
- Text of Second Interview: July 28, 1992
- Text of Third Interview: March 8, 1993
- Text of Fourth Interview: April 6, 1993
- Text of Fifth Interview: October 17, 1994
- Text of Sixth Interview: December 7, 1998
- Text of Seventh Interview: May 6, 2003
- Index
- Table of Cases and Statutes
- The William B. Lockhart Lecture at the University of Minnesota Law School
- Remembrance of Judge Patricia M. Wald, collecting remarks at Memorial Service, February 2, 2019, at the Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C.
- Tribute to the Honorable Patricia McGowan Wald, District of Columbia Circuit Judicial Conference, June 25-28, 2019, facilitated by the Circuit Executive’s Office
- Biographical Sketch: Honorable Patricia M. Wald
- Biographical Sketch: Stephen J. Pollak, Esq.
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- Age 12, Torrington, CT
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- About 1965
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- From the Yale Law School Yearbook, Class of 1951
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- Being awarded a pen by President Lyndon Johnson for her work on the behalf of the Bail Reform Act of 1966
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- Ford Foundation Meeting with Bill Donaldson, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1973)
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- Joining the U.S. Court of Appeals (1979)
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- Three pioneers: Judge Wald with Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (center) and Judge June Lazenby Green
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- With husband Bob dancing at daughter Freddi’s wedding: September 1993, Washington, DC
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- With the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague (1999-2002)
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- At granddaughter Rebecca Wald’s wedding: July 2012, Washington, DC
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- President Obama awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Judge Wald on November 20, 2013
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- Wald Family: (from left to right): Freddi, Sarah, Johanna, Bob, Pat (kneeling) Tom, Doug