Shareholder at the firm Cooper & Walinski, A Legal Professional Association
Areas of Practice
General Practice; Civil Rights; Litigation; Labor and Employment
Admitted
1982, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1994, Ohio and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit; 2002, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, J.D., 1982
College
Brown University, B.A., 1979
Membership
Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (Trustee, June 2006).
Biography
Phi Beta Kappa. Recipient: Nirmal K. Sinha Commissioners Award, Ohio Civil Rights Commission, July, 2006. United Way of Cleveland "Spotlight Volunteer," March 2006; Rosa Parks Congressional Medal, July, 2005; Fair Housing Achievement Award, The Housing Advocates, Inc., September 2003; Individual Achievement Award, Northern Ohio Fair Housing Alliance, April 2003; Year 2000 OCRC Leadership Award, Ohio Civil Rights Commission, February, 2000; 1998 Fair Housing Award, Fair Housing Contact Service, October 1998. Selected: one of 10 "Lawyers of the Year," Ohio Lawyers Weekly, December 1999; one of 10 "Outstanding Women in the Law," The Cleveland Bar Association, May 1999. Author: "Causes of Action for Handicapped Discrimination in Housing in Violation of the Federal Fair Housing Act [42 U.S.C.A. 3601 et seq.". Co-Author with David Oakley and Edward Kramer: "Related Federal Statutes," 22 Causes of Action 2d, West Publishing Co., June 2003. Adjunct Faculty, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 1994-2002. Appointed to the Ohio Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission, 2003.
Born
Newark, New Jersey, 1957
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