Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch says she’s never thought of herself as a trailblazer or a pioneer.

Her former clerks describe her as modest and even, around those she doesn’t know well, shy. At the unveiling of Kravitch’s portrait at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2005, one former clerk, Atlanta lawyer Ronan P. Doherty, quipped that the clerks had to threaten to hang a velvet Elvis before the judge would sit for an artist.

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