Ann Woolner

December 12, 2019 | Daily Report Online

"I knew I was innocent, and they done everything in the world to prove I did it," said a former suspect in mail bombings.

By Ann Woolner

11 minute read

June 23, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Stuck in a low-level U.S. State Department job where promotions for women were rare, Dorothy Toth one day walked to the closest law school one day, hoping to take one course to see if she liked law.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

6 minute read

June 23, 2016 | Daily Report Online

As a youngster in Alabama born in 1942, Richard Sinkfield sometimes tagged along with his mother to office buildings she'd been hired to clean at night.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

8 minute read

June 23, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Emory University undergraduate Elliott Levitas chose law over medicine because lawyers can do more good on a wider scale than doctors can with one patient at a time.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

7 minute read

June 23, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Born in 1949, Thomas G. Sampson grew up in Durham, North Carolina, as the struggle to dismantle Jim Crow gained steam.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

5 minute read

June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

When Miles Alexander came to work at Kilpatrick, Cody, Rogers, McClatchey & Regenstein in 1958 after a teaching stint at Harvard Law School, he joined Atlanta's largest firm. It had 14 lawyers.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

5 minute read

June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

During Patricia Thrower's first week at Harvard Law School, a classmate berated her for taking up space his buddy could have used to stay out of Vietnam. He said a law degree would be wasted on a woman, who'd do nothing but have babies. Another said he'd never marry a woman who went to Harvard Law.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

4 minute read

June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Defeated for a second term as governor in 2002, Roy E. Barnes decided against taking one of the positions offered him by large law firms around town. He went to work for Atlanta Legal Aid Society, getting no pay and representing people like Alfredia Webb.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

5 minute read

June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

It was May 1954 when a fifth-grade teacher in Cartersville asked her students that classic question: What do you want to be when you grow up?

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

4 minute read

June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

5 minute read