Skiing on Christmas Eve 1979, Kathi Pugh, then 20, fell hard on the slopes — so hard that she must have fractured a bone in her neck. She managed to get up and keep going. But when she flopped onto the powder again, this time to make a snow angel, she couldn't stand.
The accident left Pugh a quadriplegic. She had hoped to go into sports medicine before. That started to change when she ran into problems going to restaurants and movies and boarding public transit in a wheelchair. After her suit against the Bay Area Rapid Transit District compelled the system to upgrade its elevators to improve access for the disabled, Pugh felt called to enter the legal profession.
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