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Attorney Linda Coberly, who is chair of chair of the National ERA's Legal Task Force will discuss the current status of the ERA, why we still need it, and why it is not too late.
One hundred years after passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, women are still fighting for equal rights. Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972—with broad support on both sides of the aisle. But when the time limit for ratification expired in the early 1980s, the ERA remained three ratifications short of the 38 state ratifications required for it to become part of our Constitution. That has now changed, with the ratifications by Nevada in 2017, Illinois in 2018, and Virginia in early 2020.
Linda Coberly is the chair of Winston & Strawn’s Appellate & Critical Motions Practice and serves as Managing Partner of the firm’s oldest and largest office. She provides advice on strategic legal issues at all stages of litigation, informed by her time as a clerk for Justice Stephen G. Breyer and for Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg on the D.C. Circuit. She has argued more than 50 appeals in federal and state appellate courts across the country. Ms. Coberly serves as Chair of the ERA Coalition’s Legal Task Force and leads the firm’s pro bono efforts to support ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. She is a director and immediate past chair of the board of Heartland Alliance (the Midwest’s largest human rights and anti-poverty organization), serves on the Board of the United Way for Metro Chicago and as Vice President of the Board of Trustees of Chicago’s Goodman Theater, and is a member of the Chicago Network, an organization of women at the top of their organizations in business, law, academia, government, and the arts. She holds an A.B. from Princeton and a J.D. from the University of Michigan.
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