CWIL Executive Director Linda Chanow Named 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree by the Texas Minority Counsel Program

CWIL Executive Director Linda Chanow has been named the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree by the Texas Minority Counsel Program (TMCP). According to TMCP, the Lifetime Achievement Award "recognizes an attorney who has demonstrated extraordinary support and advocacy for the advancement of minorities, women, and/or LGBT people in the legal profession over the course of their legal career. This award is based on the significant contributions an individual attorney, in private practice or as in-house counsel, has made toward the profession of diversity and inclusion in the legal profession." As a prominent voice in the legal field, Chanow recently co-chaired the American Bar Association (ABA) Toolkit for Gender Equity in Partner Compensation, an initiative of the ABA Presidential Task Force on Gender Equity, and is a liaison to the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession. As Executive Director at CWIL, Chanow convenes leaders and top academics at CWIL's biennial Women’s Power Summit on Law and Leadership, teaches a course at Texas Law that explores the "leaky pipeline" issue prevalent in the workforce, and oversees the Women in Law Institute, a training program for female law students and judicial clerks that provides them with critical skills to successfully navigate their careers.