There were no women on the faculty. But if Sorokin needed a female role model, she could look to an aunt, who was Hartford’s first woman allergist, and a mother who, Sorokin said, “told me that every woman should have a profession, even if she doesn’t use it.”
But Ethel Sorokin she did use her profession. This week, following her death at age 84, Connecticut lawyers recalled her pioneering work as a female attorney and in First Amendment law. After graduating from law school in 1953, Sorokin went on to lead a firm with her late husband, Milton. Together, they founded the Center for First Amendment Rights in Hartford to promote awareness of constitutional rights.
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