Last year was a rough one for the program. In May, Carol Rogers, the program’s executive director, moved to San Diego. And in October, Drucilla Ramey, the program’s co-founder and biggest cheerleader, left her 17-year post as the Bar Association of San Francisco’s president and moved to New York.
The legal community is still struggling to meet the goal of expanding employment opportunities for minority attorneys that was set by the program when it was created 13 years ago. In 1989, BASF received pledges from most of the Bay Area’s biggest firms that minorities would make up 10 percent of their partner ranks by 2000, and some were not able to keep their promise.
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