ANN WOOLHANDLER ∑ Illuminating the Federal Courts

Ann Woolhandler moved back to her home state of Louisiana, practicing civil rights law in a small office with only two other lawyers. She admits it was a bit of a shock at first, noting “‘over-head ’ was not a word I had heard much at Harvard. ” Nevertheless, she stayed for almost a decade, working on school desegregation, voting rights, first amendment, and employment discrimination cases as well as criminal appeals and developing the substantive interests that have guided her academic career. Woolhandler began teaching law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law before moving back to New Orleans to teach at Tulane. After visits at Virginia, Harvard, and Boston University Law Schools, she joined the Virginia faculty last year. Woolhandler’s practice involved traditional federal courts issues regarding the availability of federal jurisdiction and the amenability of government and its officers to suit, which reinforced the interest in federal courts she first developed as a law student and maintains in her scholarship. Her first article, “Patterns o