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California's Gold—Cultural Richness
Convention Banquet Speaker Judge CordellJudge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell was the first African American woman on the Superior Court in northern California. Her background includes a degree from Stanford Law School, where she later served as an assistant dean and set up a successful minority admissions policy. Her work experiences have taken her from East Palo Alto to the Mississippi Delta. She is the subject of a PBS documentary on her experiences in South Africa while attending that country's first Human Rights Conference. Judge Cordell has begun several innovative programs in Santa Clara County, including programs in which senior citizens supervise visits between abusive parents and their children, and one in which volunteers assist in monitoring children placed in guardianships. She has established a task force to increase African American donations of blood, bone marrow and organs. She is also an artist whose work has raised funds for nonprofit women's and children's groups. And, she notes, "a mother and a grandmother"! CFN Head is Workshop SpeakerSteve Sanders, Executive Director of California Futures Network, will be lead speaker at our State Convention Growth Management Workshop. LWVC recently endorsed CFN's "Smart Growth Principles". Affiliates of CFN are united in their belief that California should:
If you have a success story you would like to share, please contact Ramona Salisbury, Natural Resources Director at e-mail: ramona@san.rr.com New Millennium IssuesWe've all heard about the "future plan" touted by LWVUS. Four speakers at Convention 99's Saturday morning plenary will inform delegates about California's future issuesand inspire all of us to become enthusiastic promoters of creative League programs in the new millennium! Kathleen Weisenberg, former LWVUS Board member, will describe the exciting work of California League members on Smart Voter. (see article) Jean Askham, Orange County Inter-League Organization (ILO) president, helped promote a successful event in Santa Ana, called Women in Government: 50/50 by 2020. The program's goal is to have women hold 50 per cent of elective offices by the year 2020, the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage. Sheila Hoff, California's off-Board Program Director for Reproductive Choices, has been an active and vocal representative of the League on the issues of women's health and reproductive rights. She will outline her successful efforts to develop a statewide advocacy network of California League members supporting a woman's right to reproductive choices. Xandra Kayden, Los Angeles City League president and a contributing editor of The Los Angeles Times , will speak about her League's ambitious Charter Education Project, facilitating community-wide discussions about city charter reform.
Convention '99 Committee
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