By Rebekah Carico, RWL President 2024-2025
Every March we have the opportunity to reflect on, celebrate, honor, and remember the important role women have played in our history and continue to play in our lives. This is a critical time to ensure that women’s voices are being heard and amplified. Women’s History Month is all the more important because of the struggles we continue to face today.
Thankfully, Richmond Law is a place where all voices are encouraged to speak up and speak out. Over the last hundred years, women have played an essential role at Richmond Law. From our first female graduate over 100 years ago, to our current Dean Wendy Perdue, all the women along the way have helped shape Richmond Law into a place where we can feel accepted, seen, and heard.
Richmond Women’s Law strives to continue this legacy by celebrating and lifting women up in all that we do. From our annual trivia event that raises money for the Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation to our fundraiser for Safe Harbor Women’s Shelter, we aim to support women both within the law school and in our community. Our faculty and staff make this possible through partnering with us for events, hosting dinners for our members, serving on panels, and being mentors to many of us.
It has been such an honor to be a part of Richmond Women’s Law for the last three years. Serving both as RWL’s Vice President and President has been the highlight of my time at Richmond Law. I know we will continue to celebrate our community, our accomplishments, and the legacy of inclusion and encouragement that we have here at Richmond.
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For Women’s History Month, the Muse Law Library invites the president of Richmond Women’s Law to write a guest blog. I would like to thank President Rebekah Carico for her wonderful contribution, not only to this blog, but to enriching the lives of her fellow students as president (and previously vice president) of RWL. – Mads Ball, Student Services Librarian