Toni Rembe may have been Pillsbury Madison & Sutro’s first woman partner, a leader in tax law and a board member for some of the world’s most powerful corporations. But the legal trailblazer insists that she was once so shy that she would spend hours fretting the night before a speaking obligation.

“Every time I had to speak in public I thought I’d die,” the now semi-retired Rembe said. “But I just pushed myself. Courage is an important thing. I would speak up. My face would get red, but I would speak up.”

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