Pam Bondi [View all]

I revisit my education and experience for undergraduate and graduate schools.

I have a total of nine years, three diplomas. I am both a certified public school educator and a certified attorney.

I graduated from an independent women's college, so I learned to be prepared to participate and to speak up with confidence. Unfortunately, that didn't translate into law school where clumps of beer-drinking male compatriots had no problem sneering and jeering at me when I could answer a question they couldn't. Meant to humiliate me.

At this point, maybe I would have dropped out or let them control who I was. Or become Pam Bondi and let nobody touch me. I would be right no matter what. Or Woody Allen in The Front, where he refused to answer any question.

I promise that I never observed a Pam Bondi in any of my law school classes. If anything, I witnessed women more brilliant than my college. I wanted to be more like them. And yes, there were times I could answer questions that they couldn't.

Pam Bondi is an embarrassment to all attorneys, but particularly to women attorneys who had to work twice as hard to be get into law school and three times as hard to graduate and pass the Bar.