2. Judge Victoria Kolakowski - Authenticity on the Bench
The Honorable Judge Victoria Kolakowski, is a judge of the Superior Court of Alameda County, in the Bay Area of California and in November 2010 she was the first Transgender person to be elected a Trial Judge.
Judge Kolakowski is a committed advocate for transgender people and makes herself available throughout the United States and internationally for conferences, seminars and interviews acting as a role-model and providing support.
Her conversation with Patrick Devitt goes back to her childhood, to her earliest days of wishing she were a girl, through adolescence, college and law school. She talks about her transition, reactions to it, the support network that made it possible and how being transgender affected her employment opportunities and career path.
We hope you enjoy this profoundly moving interview that we originally released to coincide with LGBT History Month in the UK and are re-releasing now as part of our Inspiring People in Law series. There is more information about Judge Kolakowski on the following links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Kolakowski
https://vkolakowski.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzPT40eaEGY&list=PLIsDBjtKYyJalB8rWNJqtKt-bAhhX2h6T
Fiftyfaces Focus - Inspiring People in the Law
The Fiftyfaces Focus series builds on the successful model of The Fiftyfaces Podcast by showcasing the richness and diversity of the law by focusing on its people and their stories. We meet with people who have had unusual career paths, sometimes visceral experience with discrimination and its fallout, who have had lived experience that informs their perspective and who have displayed resilience and persistence to achieve their goals.
Where can you listen?
