On April 28, 2007, the Stanford Center on Ethics convened a one day conference with national scope, "Title IX Today, Title IX Tomorrow". This event featured leading policy makers, administrators, scholars, and public officials with the ability to influence the effective implementation of Title IX in the years to come. It was designed to provoke fresh insights and promote sound practices surrounding gender equity in college athletics and beyond.

"Title IX Today, Title IX Tomorrow" included discussion of how to assess gender equity in college athletics, how to increase opportunities for women students and coaches without diminishing them for men, and how to promote change in athletic contexts beyond the intercollegiate setting.

This conference was held in conjunction with an Aurora Forum presentation:
Title IX at 35: A Conversation with Billie Jean King.

This unique opportunity to hear from a sports legend and social pioneer with broad impact will be held free of charge to the public in Maples Pavilion. "Title IX Today, Title IX Tomorrow" registrants were invited to attend this event, immediately following the conclusion of the conference. This public conversation was moderated by LaDoris Cordell, Title IX Compliance Officer and Special Counselor to the President at Stanford.

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8:00-8:30am Continental Breakfast available 8:30-9:30am Opening Remarks Deborah Rhode   Director, Stanford Center on Ethics   Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law   Stanford University Ted Leland   Vice President for University Advancement   University of the Pacific 9:30-10:30am Participation, Progress, and Professional Opportunity: A Report Card for the First 35 Years of Title IX Linda Jean Carpenter   Professor Emerita   Brooklyn College 10:30-10:45am Break 10:45-12:15pm Strategies for Equality in a Climate of Commercialism Bob Bowlsby   Jaquish and Kenninger Director of Athletics   Stanford University Sandy Barbour   Director of Athletics   University of California - Berkeley Donna Lopiano   CEO   Women's Sports Foundation Moderator: Val Bonnette   President   Good Sports, Inc. 12:15-1:15pm Lunch Sponsored by Gordon & Rees LLP 1:15-2:45pm Facts, Fiction, and the Future: Men's Sports and Women's Opportunities Dick Gould   John L. Hinds Director of Tennis   Stanford University Eric Pearson   Executive Director   College Sports Council Mary Jo Kane   Director   Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport   University of Minnesota Moderating Panelist: Welch Suggs   Author   A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX 2:45-3:00pm Break 3:00-4:30pm Gender Equity: How Do We Know When We're There? David Black   Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement   Office of Civil Rights, Department of Education Tara VanDerveer   Women's Basketball Coach   Stanford University Judy Sweet   Gender Equity Consultant and NCAA Independent Contractor Carole Oglesby   Chair, Department of Kinesiology   California State University - Northridge Moderator: Deborah Rhode 4:30-4:45pm Break 4:45-6:15pm The Footprint of Title IX: Beyond Intercollegiate Athletics Anita DeFrantz   President   Amateur Athletic Foundation Debra Huston   Administrative Law Judge   California Office of Administrative Hearings Marie Ishida   Executive Director   California Interscholastic Federation Moderating Panelist: Marcia Greenberger   Co-President   National Women's Law Center 6:15-7:15pm Reception for all Conference Attendees 7:30-9:00pm Aurora Forum and Stanford Center on Ethics Present: Title IX at 35 - A Conversation with Billie Jean King Maples Pavilion

 

Sandy Barbour
Director of Athletics, UC Berkeley

Anne "Sandy" Barbour will complete her third year as Director of Athletics at the University of California this spring, overseeing a department that sponsors 27 intercollegiate programs and operates on an annual budget in excess of $40 million.

Barbour, a former deputy director of athletics at Notre Dame and athletic director at Tulane, began her role at Cal on Sept. 15, 2004.

During her first academic year in Berkeley, the Golden Bears captured a pair of national titles - rugby and women's crew - and featured 11 teams that finished in the national Top 10, including the football team, which posted its best regular-season record since 1950. Cal also placed 14th in the Directors' Cup standings - the fifth time in the past six years the Bears have ranked among the Top 15 athletic programs in the country - while 175 student-athletes earned academic all-conference recognition.

At Notre Dame, Barbour, 45, was the deputy director of athletics, serving as the university's senior athletic administrator under Athletic Director Kevin White from July 2003 through her appointment to Cal. She previously held an associate athletic director position there starting in 2000.

Barbour's career in intercollegiate athletic administration spans 23 years, beginning as a field hockey assistant coach and lacrosse administrative assistant at the University of Massachusetts in 1981. She has since served as assistant athletic director at Northwestern and in 1991 was recruited to Tulane as an associate athletic director.

While at Tulane, Barbour also worked for White - then Tulane's athletic director. At the age of 36, she was appointed Tulane's director of athletics when White left in 1996 for a similar position at Arizona State.

One of eight female athletic directors at NCAA Division I-A schools at the time, Barbour was chair of the NCAA Division I Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee and a member of the Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet and the board of directors of the National Association of Collegiate Women's Athletic Administrators. She was also elected chair of the inaugural Conference USA committee for Senior Women Administrators and served on the league's executive committee. In addition, she chaired the executive committee for the 1993 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships hosted by Tulane.

Barbour graduated cum laude in 1981 with a B.S. degree in physical education from Wake Forest, where she was a four-year letterwinner and served as captain of the field hockey team. She also played two varsity seasons of women's basketball. Barbour earned advanced degrees at both Massachusetts (an M.S. in sports management in 1983) and Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management (an MBA in 1991).

 

David Black
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement, Office of Civil Rights, Department of Education

Mr. Black joined the Department of Education on November 1, 2004. He is currently the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement in the Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR). In this capacity, Mr. Black acts as the principal advisor to the Assistant Secretary on civil rights enforcement to further the mission of OCR. That mission is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation through vigorous enforcement of civil rights. Specifically, Mr. Black works with the Assistant Secretary to oversee the resolution of approximately 5,000 civil rights cases filed annually in 12 enforcement offices. The Office for Civil Rights enforces several Federal civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination in programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance from the Department of Education. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Black worked as an attorney in the area of civil rights, labor and employment law and litigation, as a member of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, in the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Minnesota and as a Russian linguist with the U.S. Army. In 1996, Mr. Black received a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School where he was Note and Comment Editor of the Minnesota Journal of Global Trade. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, summa cum laude, from the University of North Dakota in 1990.

 

Val Bonnette
President, Good Sports, Inc

Valerie McMurtrie Bonnette founded Good Sports, Inc., Title IX and Gender Equity Specialists, in June 1994. Good Sports, Inc., provides technical assistance to postsecondary and secondary institutions in complying with the athletics provisions of Title IX. Ms. Bonnette is the author of "Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics: How It All Works - In Plain English," a self-evaluation manual and desk reference for colleges and universities. She was the author of "Title IX Athletics Q & A," a periodical that provided answers to Title IX athletics questions from education administrators and staff, parents and students. She also authored "Title IX Basics," a section of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's guide "Achieving Gender Equity."

Prior to founding Good Sports, Inc., Ms. Bonnette worked for 15 years at the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), U.S. Department of Education in OCR's headquarters office in Washington, D.C., where she was a senior program analyst. She was co-author of OCR's 1990 Title IX Athletics Investigator's Manual. She conducted federal investigations of complaints alleging sex discrimination in athletics programs, provided technical assistance to national and regional athletics organizations, and provided on-site technical assistance to individual institutions. She trained OCR chief regional attorneys, managers, staff attorneys, equal opportunity specialists and program analysts, and provided guidance on Title IX athletics policy and procedure to OCR's regional offices, education officials, parents, and students.

Ms. Bonnette received her MA from the University of Florida and her BA in history and physical education from Wilmington College, Ohio. In 2001, Ms. Bonnette was inducted into Wilmington College's Athletic Hall of Fame.

 

Bob Bowlsby
Jaquish and Kenninger Director of Athletics, Stanford University

Bob Bowlsby, one of the most respected and admired athletic administrators in the nation during his nearly 15 years at the helm of the University of Iowa's athletic program, was named the Jaquish & Kenninger Director of Athletics at Stanford University on April 25, 2006. He took over the reigns of the Cardinal athletic department on July 10, 2006.

Bowlsby directs a department that includes 35 intercollegiate varsity teams - 15 men's, 19 women's and one coed - plus the physical education department, intramurals, club sports, open recreation and the Stanford Golf Course. The department has an annual budget of approximately $75 million.

As the chief administrator for Iowa's athletic department from 1991-2006, Bowlsby earned a reputation as one of the most admired, energetic and ambitious athletic administrators in the nation. Over the past four years Bowlsby guided and supervised the merger of the Hawkeye's women's and men's athletics departments. The combined entity encompasses 24 varsity sports and an annual budget in excess of $60 million.

In addition to building the Iowa athletic program, Bowlsby (born January 10, 1952) has emerged as a national leader on intercollegiate athletics as well. He served as chair of the NCAA Wrestling Committee and has served on NCAA committees on Financial Aid and Amateurism, the Special Committee to Review Amateurism Issues and the Special Committee to Review Financial Conditions in Athletics. Bowlsby recently completed a five-year term on the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament Committee, serving as committee chairman in 2003-04 and 2004-05.

Bowlsby has also served as an Executive Committee member with both the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and the Division I-A Athletic Directors Association and served in 2002-2003 as President of the I-A Directors group.

He was elected chair of the NCAA Olympic Sports Liaison Committee and represented the NCAA as one of two voting members on the United States Olympic Committee. Bowlsby has also served as a member of the Board of Governors for the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. He recently completed service on the 15-member commission on Opportunities in Athletics by US Secretary of Education, Rod Paige.

The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) named Bowlsby in 2001-02 as Central Region Athletic Director of the Year and Sports Business Journal selected him from the four regional award winners as the National Athletics Director of the Year. The award highlights the efforts of the athletic directors for their commitment and positive contributions to campuses and their surrounding communities.

Bowlsby earned his bachelor's degree from Moorhead State University (Minnesota) in 1975 and his master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1978. He and his wife, Candice, have four children: Lisa, Matt, Rachel and Kyle.

Linda Jean Carpenter
Professor Emerita, Brooklyn College

Linda Jean Carpenter, Ph.D., J.D. has been involved in Title IX and gender equity issues in sport for over three decades. Studies on various topics relating to women in sport have characterized her research efforts with co-researcher Vivian Acosta. Dr. Carpenter has authored or co-authored 9 books, has published about 40 articles, has presented at about 130 national, regional and local conferences and has received about 40 grants.

In addition to being an attorney, Dr. Carpenter is professor emerita at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York where she served as an elected member of the Policy Council, Faculty Council and the Steering Committee of the Faculty Council, and as chair of both the Undergraduate and Graduate Curriculum and Degree Requirements as well as the Committee on College Integrity in addition to serving on several community advisory boards and boards of trustees.

She has received numerous national awards, including the Honor Award from the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators, the Billie Jean King Award, the American Bar Association Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyers Award (Outstanding Academic), the Honor Award and two Presidential Awards from the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport, and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the School and Community Safety Society of America as well as being a charter inductee of the North American Society for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance.

Dr. Carpenter, a member of the New York State and the United States Supreme Court bars, earned her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1981 and her Ph.D. in sport administration in 1974 from the University of Southern California.

 

 

Anita DeFrantz
President, Amateur Athletic Foundation

Anita L. DeFrantz, an attorney and member of the International Olympic Committee and 1976 and 1980 Olympic teams, is the president and member of the Board of Directors of the AAF, which is managing Southern California's endowment from the 1984 Olympic Games.

After graduating from Connecticut College with honors in 1974, she studied for her law degree at the University of Pennsylvania Law School while training at the prestigious Vesper Boat Club. She was admitted to the Pennsylvania State Bar in 1977. She competed on every national team from 1975 to 1980.

DeFrantz was elected to the IOC on October 17, 1986. On September 4, 1997, she became the first woman in the 103-year history of the IOC to be elected Vice President. She was first elected to the IOC's Executive Board on July 23, 1992 and re-elected to a full four-year term in September 1993. DeFrantz is the chair of the IOC's Women and Sport Commission and the IOC Athletes' Commission Election Committee. She is a member of the IOC's Juridical Commission, the Finance Commission, the Coordination Commission for London 2012 Olympic Games and the Sport and Law Commission.

Since 1993, she has served as a vice president of the International Rowing Federation (FISA). In April 2002, DeFrantz was appointed as arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

In addition to her Olympic bronze medal performance in the 1976 Games, DeFrantz won a silver medal in the 1978 World Championships in rowing, was a finalist in the World Championships four times and won six National Championships. The IOC awarded her the Bronze Medal of the Olympic Order for her leadership role in fighting the U.S. government-led boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.

DeFrantz is a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee Board of Directors. She is president and member of the Board of Directors of Kids In Sports, Los Angeles. She has served as president of Southern California Olympians. DeFrantz is a member of The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, steward of the Women's Sports Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors for Western Asset Trust, Inc., the Juvenile Law Center, Institute for International Sport, Santa Monica College Foundation and Los Angeles Sports Council. She is a member of The Global Council, International Museum of Women and the NCAA Leadership Advisory Board.

 

Dick Gould
John L. Hinds, Director of Tennis, Stanford University

After 38 years and 17 national titles, the legendary coach retired at the end of the 2003-04 season. However, Gould is very much involved with Stanford tennis as the John L. Hinds Director of Tennis. Gould was honored by Wilson Sporting Goods and the ITA as "Coach of the Decade" in men's collegiate tennis during the 1980s and again for the 1990's. The award is fitting as Gould's Stanford teams captured six NCAA team titles in both the 80's and 90's. Gould was also named the 2000 ITA Coach of the Year.

In world rankings, nine of his former players reached the top 15 in singles and 14 reached the top 10 in doubles. (Seven of these attained the world's No. 1 doubles ranking). In NCAA individual competition, Gould produced 10 singles champions, including 15 different finalists and 12 others who reached the semifinals. In doubles, 14 players won the doubles championship, and 10 others finished as runner ups. Fifty of his players earned All-America honors. In NCAA championship team competition, Stanford won 88 of 99 matches (.889). Three Gould teams recorded perfect seasons: in 1998 (28-0), 1995 (27-0) and 1978 (24-0), and five times his teams lost only one match.

On three occasions, Stanford has captured back-to-back NCAA titles-1973-74, 1977-78 and 1980-81. The Cardinal won three consecutive team titles from 1988-90 and four in a row from 1995-98. Three Gould-coached squads have recorded unblemished records in 1998 (28-0), 1995 (27-0) and 1978 (24-0), and five times his teams have lost only one match. The 1998 team is regarded by many as one of the best all-time teams, posting a 28-0 record while losing just three points the entire year. For his efforts leading the team, Gould earned ITA/Wilson Intercollegiate Coach of the Year honors and was named the U.S. Olympic Committee Coach of the Year.

Gould is renowned not only for his coaching and recruiting skill, but also as a pioneer in the collegiate tennis world. The 69-year-old coach initiated major college indoor matches in 1974, opening the doors of Stanford's spacious Maples Pavilion to matches that attracted 7,500 fans to view collegiate competition in the comfort of an indoor arena. Additionally, Gould has been instrumental in bringing world-class tennis events to the Taube Family Tennis Stadium including the WTA's Bank of the West Classic, the 1999 Fed Cup Final, the Siebel Champions and the World Team Tennis National Collegiate Championship.

Gould and his wife, Anne, the former Stanford University women's tennis coach from 1976-79 who led the Cardinal to its first women's national team championship in 1978, and is currently a senior lecturer in physical education at Stanford, reside in Menlo Park.

 

Marcia Greenberger
Co-President, National Women's Law Center

Described as "guiding the battles of the women's rights movement" by the New York Times, Marcia Greenberger is the founder and Co-President of the National Women's Law Center. The creation of the Center over 30 years ago established her as the first full-time women's rights legal advocate in Washington, D.C.

A recognized expert on sex discrimination and the law, at the National Women's Law Center, Ms. Greenberger has participated in the development of key legislative initiatives and litigation protecting women's rights, particularly in the areas of education, employment, family economic security, health and reproductive rights. She has been a leader in developing strategies to secure the successful passage of legislation protecting women and counsel in landmark litigation establishing new legal precedents for women, and is the author of numerous published articles.

Her leadership and contributions are reflected in the professional honors she has received and the numerous boards on which she serves. Recognized by Working Woman Magazine as one of the 25 heroines whose activities over 25 years have helped women in the workplace, and Washingtonian Magazine as one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful women, she was awarded the Alumni Award of Merit from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2001 and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Lafayette College in 2000. She was elected to the Court of Honor of the Philadelphia High School for Girls in 2006, selected to receive the Hope Award from Calvary Women's Shelter in 2005, an award from the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association in 2005, A Woman of Genius Award from Trinity College in 2000, the Woman of Distinction Award from Soroptimist International of the Americas in 2000, the Woman Lawyer of the Year Award by the D.C. Women's Bar Association in 1996, honored by the Center for Law and Social Policy in 1995, and given the William J. Brennan, Jr. Award by the District of Columbia Bar in 1994. She received a Presidential appointment to the National Skill Standards Board, and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, is on the Board of Directors of the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and the National Student Partnerships, and a Council member of the American Bar Association Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities.

Ms. Greenberger received her B.A. with honors in 1967, and her J.D. cum laude in 1970, from the University of Pennsylvania. She practiced law with the Washington, D.C., firm of Caplin and Drysdale from 1970-72, and in 1972 she started and became Director of the Women's Rights Project of the Center for Law and Social Policy, which became the National Women's Law Center in 1981.

 

Debra Huston
Administrative Law Judge

Debra Huston joined OAH in December 2005, coming from Legislative Counsel Bureau (LCB). Ms. Huston joined the LCB in 2000, and for the next three years practiced law in the areas of public health and human services. Ms. Huston was LCB's designated mental health law expert for the Legislature, and drafted numerous legislative measures relating to the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, the AB 3632 program, Medi-Cal mental health services, and the children's system of care, among others.

During 2004, Ms. Huston took a one-year hiatus from the LCB to serve as principal consultant to Assembly Member Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) during his last year in the Assembly. Ms. Huston staffed Mr. Steinberg for the Assembly Judiciary Committee, staffed five bills authored by Mr. Steinberg, and volunteered as a member of the campaign team for Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act, for which Mr. Steinberg was the lead proponent.

In late 2004, Ms. Huston returned to the LCB, where she practiced education law and also staffed the Assembly Committee on Education. During 2005, Ms. Huston drafted numerous special education legislative measures, among which was AB 1662, the bill that conformed California law to the 2004 amendments of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Prior to joining the LCB in 2000, Ms. Huston was a deputy state public defender with the State Public Defender's office. She was lead counsel on three capital appeals and founded the office's mental health training program for attorneys. Ms. Huston began her legal career in Carmel, California, where she focused primarily on appellate litigation for 13 years, and was counsel of record on over 200 criminal, juvenile delinquency, and juvenile dependency cases.

Ms. Huston graduated from California State University, Sacramento, in 1979, and from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in 1984.

 

Marie Ishida
Executive Director, California Interscholastic Federation

Marie M. Ishida, the State CIF executive director, is the seventh chief executive officer of the statewide organization. She has served in this position since April 2001.

Ishida was the CIF president during the formation and implementation of the organization's strategic plan. Under her leadership, the CIF changed both philosophically and governance-wise becoming a service organization to member schools.

Ishida served on the CIF Executive Committee from 1989-1998. She was CIF president elect from 1992-94, CIF president from 1994-96 and CIF past president from 1996-98. She has served on the board of directors for the National Federation of State High School Associations, only the third member from California ever selected to this prestigious post.

On both the state and national level, Ishida has received many accolades and honors. In 1997, the National Federation of State High School Associations bestowed Ishida with their Outstanding Service Award. She was also honored with an Extraordinary Service Award by the CIF and received the California Coaches Association's highest honor as a recipient of the William S. Rockwell Distinguished Service Award.

Ishida's involvement spans two other CIF Sections as well: the CIF Central Coast and Southern Section. She served as president of the CIF Central Coast Section from 1989-91 and was a manager for the girls' basketball championships within the CIF Southern Section from 1976-78.

Ishida began her career as a teacher and coach at Faye Ross Junior High School in 1971. From 1974-79, she worked at Artesia High School as a teacher, coach, assistant athletic director (1975-79) and assistant Dean of Students (1976-79).

She was an administrative intern for the CIF Central Coast Section from 1979-80 before becoming the assistant principal at Santa Cruz High School, a position she held from 1980-86. From 1986-95, Ishida was the principal at Carmel High School. In 1995, she accepted the position as the assistant superintendent of human resources for the Santa Cruz City Schools and served in that capacity until being appointed the executive director. She currently serves on the National Federation of State High School Association's Board of Directors and Hall of Fame Screening Committee.

 

 

Mary Jo Kane
Director, Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport

Mary Jo Kane is Professor and Chair in the School of Kinesiology and the Director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1985 with an emphasis in sport sociology. Professor Kane is an internationally recognized scholar who has published extensively on media representations of athletic females. She is also considered one of the nation's leading experts on the social and political implications of Title IX.

In 1996, Professor Kane was awarded the first Endowed Chair related to women in sport: The Dorothy McNeill & Elbridge Ashcraft Tucker Chair for Women in Sport & Exercise Science. She was recently elected by her peers as a Fellow in the American Academy of Kinesiology, the highest academic honor in her field. In 2004, Professor Kane received the Scholar of the Year Award from the Women's Sports Foundation. This award is given to individuals who make significant research contributions in the areas of women's sports and physical activity.

 

Ted Leland
Vice President for University Advancement, University of the Pacific

Appointed Vice President for University Advancement at University of the Pacific on January 1, 2006, Dr. Leland oversees fund raising and alumni relations on all three of Pacific's campuses, including the main campus in Stockton, the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco, and the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. He also holds a non-tenurable academic appointment as a professor in College of the Pacific, the University's school of liberal arts and sciences.

From 1991-2005, he served as the Jaquish and Kenninger Director of Athletics at Stanford University. Under his leadership, Stanford won 50 national team championships, the most under a single athletic director in the history of intercollegiate athletics, and was awarded 11 consecutive Directors Cups, presented by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) to the best overall program in the country.

In 2000, NACDA named him its Athletic Director of the Year. He has also won the 2004 Dick Enberg Award, presented by COSIDA for supporting the ideal of the student-athlete, and he has been named one of the "10 most influential persons in college athletics" by Sports Business Journal.

Before joining Stanford, Dr. Leland served as athletic director at Pacific (1989-91) and at Dartmouth College (1983-89). In addition to his outstanding administrative career, Dr. Leland is also a scholar and a teacher. He is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and has been an adjunct faculty member at Stanford, Dartmouth and Pacific. Widely regarded as a national and regional leader, Dr. Leland has:

• Co-chaired a national commission appointed by U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige and charged with examining Title IX, the federal law mandating gender equity in school and college sports programs (2002-03);

• Chaired the NCAA Division I management council (1999-2001); and

• Served on the executive committee of the Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee, a group that sought to attract the 2012 Olympic Games to San Francisco (1996-2002).

Dr. Leland, 57, is a native of Hayward, California. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Pacific and a doctoral degree in sports psychology from Stanford University.

 

 

Donna Lopiano
CEO, Women's Sports Foundation

Dr. Donna Lopiano is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Women's Sports Foundation and was recently named one of "The 10 Most Powerful Women in Sports" by Fox Sports. The Sporting News has also listed her as one of "The 100 Most Influential People in Sports." She received her bachelor's degree from Southern Connecticut State University and her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California. She has been a college coach of men's and women's volleyball, women's basketball and softball.

As an athlete, she participated in 26 national championships in four sports and was a nine-time All-American at four different positions in softball, a sport in which she played on six national championship teams. She is a member of the National Sports Hall of Fame, the National Softball Hall of Fame and the Texas Women's Hall of Fame, among others.

Dr. Lopiano served for 17 years as the University of Texas' Director of Women's Athletics and is a past-president of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.

 

Carole Oglesby
Chair, Department of Kinesiology, CSU Northridge

Dr. Carole Oglesby is Chair of the Department of Kinesiology at California State University Northridge, a position she has held since 2003. Prior to that appointment, Dr. Oglesby served as a Therapist at Northwestern Psychological Services and Professor Emeritus at Temple University following 40 years in the professoriate. Author of Women and Sport: From myth to reality, 1978 and Editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Sport in America, 1998, Dr. Oglesby was a member of the Board of Directors of the US Olympic Committee 1992-1996, on the Olympic Committee Registry of Sport Psychology since 1994 and Chef de Mission of the USA World University Games Winter team in Czechoslovakia, 1987.

She has received numerous awards, including: the National Association of Girls and Women in Sport Honor Fellow, Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Award of Merit, Women's Sports Foundation USA Billie Jean King Contribution Award, American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Honor Award, R. Tait McKinzie Award and C.D. Henry Award for contributions to African American professional advancement. Carole Oglesby participated in Amateur Softball Association championship tournaments in 1972, 1973, and 1975 and coached two teams from two different universities to the College World Series in the 1970s.

 

Eric Pearson
Executive Director, College Sports Council

Eric Pearson is the Chairman of the Board of the College Sports Council, a national coalition of coaches, athletes, parents, and sports alumni founded in 2002. Mr. Pearson has over a dozen years experience working to prevent the elimination of collegiate sports teams. He is a former coach of the Princeton University varsity wrestling team. During his coaching tenure he served a term as Chairman of the Ivy League Wrestling Coaches Association. As spokesman for the College Sports Council, he has been interviewed on CBS Evening News, CNN, CNBC, The Today Show, and National Public Radio. Mr. Pearson is a graduate of Princeton University.

 

Deborah Rhode
Director, Stanford Center on Ethics,
Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford University

Deborah L. Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Center on Ethics at Stanford University. She is the former president of the Association of American Law Schools, the former chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, and the former director of Stanford's Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She also served as senior counsel to the Minority members of the Judiciary Committee, the United States House of Representatives, on presidential impeachment issues during the Clinton administration. She is the second most frequently cited scholar on legal ethics and the National Law Journal has profiled her as one of the country ' s fifty most influential women lawyers. She has received the American Bar Association's Michael Franck award for contributions to the field of professional responsibility; the American Bar Foundation ' s W. M. Keck Foundation Award for distinguished scholarship on legal ethics, and the American Bar Association ' s Pro Bono Publico Award for her work on expanding public service opportunities in law schools.

Professor Rhode graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Yale College and received her legal training from Yale Law School. After clerking for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, she joined the Stanford faculty. She writes primarily in the area of legal ethics and gender equity. She is currently a columnist for the National Law Journal and Vice Chair of the Board of Legal Momentum (formerly the NOW Legal Defense Fund). She has also served as a trustee of Yale University and member of the board of Equal Rights Advocates.

She is the author or coauthor of nineteen books and over 150 articles. Her publications include Moral Leadership (Jossey Bass, 2006); Gender and Law (with Katharine T. Bartlett, Aspen, 2006) Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice (Stanford University Press, 2005) ; Brown at Fifty: The Unfinished Legacy (American Bar Association, 2004) (ed. with Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.); Access to Justice (Oxford University Press, 2004); Legal Ethics (Foundation Press, 4th ed. 2004) (with David Luban); The Difference Difference Makes: Women and Leadership (Stanford University Press, 2003); Professional Responsibility and Regulation (with Geoffrey Hazard, Jr., Foundation Press 2002); In the Interests of Justice (Oxford University Press, 2000); Ethics in Practice (Oxford University Press, 2000); Professional Responsibility: Ethics by the Pervasive Method (Aspen, 1998); Speaking of Sex (Harvard University Press, 1997); Sex Discrimination and the Law (with Barbara Babcock, et al., Aspen, 1996); Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference (Yale University Press, 1990); and Justice and Gender (Harvard University Press, 1989). She is married to Ralph Cavanagh, an environmental public interest lawyer.

 

Welch Suggs
Author, A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX

Welch Suggs is a Ph.D. candidate in higher education policy at the University of Georgia, and serves as assistant to the president at UGA. His research interests include university governance, gender issues, and intercollegiate athletics, and he served as associate director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics from 2005-7. Prior to that, he spent 10 years as a journalist, including six as an editor and writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the author of A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX (Princeton University Press, 2005), a finalist for the inaugural "Billie" award for outstanding journalism from the Women's Sports Foundation.

 

Judy Sweet
Gender Equity Consultant and NCAA Independent Contractor

Judy Sweet joined the NCAA as Vice President for Championships and Senior Woman Administrator in January 2001. In 2003, she was promoted to Senior Vice President for Championships and Education Services. In September 2006 she retired from the NCAA and returned to San Diego. She now serves as a consultant for the NCAA and other organizations. Prior to her work with the NCAA, Judy served as Director of Athletics at the University of California, San Diego from 1975, when she became one of the first women in the nation selected to direct a combined men's and women's intercollegiate athletics program, to 1999 when she returned to a faculty position in Social Sciences at UC San Diego. During her tenure as athletics director, the UCSD Athletics Program involved 23 varsity teams; from 1981 until 1999, UCSD athletics teams won 26 NCAA National Championships, 32 additional teams were National Finalists and 28 other teams had third place national finishes. In 1998, UCSD received the Sears Directors Cup for being the most successful athletics program in NCAA Division III.

A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Judy is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison where she majored in Physical Education and Mathematics, and served as president of the Women's Recreation Association and national president of the Athletic and Recreation Federation of College Women. She earned a Master's of Science Degree from the University of Arizona, Tucson and a Master's of Business Administration Degree from National University, San Diego. Prior to her faculty appointment at UC San Diego in 1973, she taught at the University of Arizona and Tulane University.

Judy was elected to a two-year term as President of the NCAA in January 1991 and was Secretary-Treasurer of the NCAA from 1989 to 1991, becoming the first woman to serve in each of those positions. She was Division III Vice President, the presiding officer of that division, from 1986-88. Her presidential responsibilities included presiding over the NCAA Administrative Committee, Council, and Executive Committee, and at the NCAA Annual Convention. She chaired the NCAA Budget Committee and the Special Advisory Committee to Review Recommendations Regarding Distribution of Revenues.

Judy's has served on the Board of Trustees of the United States Sports Academy, the Board of Directors of the National Association of College Women Athletic Administrators (serving as president 2000-2001), and the Board of Directors of the National Association of College Directors of Athletics. She was a member of the United States Olympic Committee's Task Force on Minorities, and serves on the Board of Trustees of National University. Judy was also selected 1998-99 NACDA/Continental Division III Athletic Director of the Year. In 2006 she was named one of the NCAA Centennial 100 Most Influential Student-Athletes and was also presented with the NACDA James J. Corbett Award, the highest honor bestowed on an athletics administrator.

 

Tara VanDerveer
Women's Basketball Coach, Stanford University

Regarded in the profession as one of the most well-respected and dynamic coaches in the country, VanDerveer's enormous contributions to the sport were recognized in April 2002, as she was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tenn.

An ambassador for both Stanford University and the sport of college basketball, VanDerveer has enjoyed an unprecedented level of success through an energetic and positive approach to the game. VanDerveer, who collected the eighth Pac-10 Coach of the Year honor of her career last season, has accumulated an impressive 660-179 (.787) record in her 27 years of collegiate coaching. VanDerveer enters the 2006-07 campaign with the fourth highest career winning percentage among active Division I women's basketball coaches and has won two NCAA Championships and 18 conference titles. The Cardinal finished 26-8 overall and reached the Elite Eight for the 10th time under VanDeveer's tutelage. It also represented the 21st postseason appearance of VanDerveer's career.

Currently in her 21st year as the head coach of the Stanford women's basketball program, she owns a sparkling 508-128 (.799) record. During her tenure on The Farm, she has led the Cardinal to two NCAA Championships, five NCAA Final Four appearances, 14 Pac-10 titles and 18 consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament.

VanDerveer's contributions to the sport of women's basketball reach far outside the collegiate world. She became internationally known in 1996 when she guided the United States Olympic Women's Basketball Team to the gold medal in Atlanta. VanDerveer led the National/Olympic team, which included Stanford products Jennifer Azzi and Katy Steding, to an incredible 60-0 record from 1995-1996. Overall, VanDerveer has compiled an 88-8 (.917) record, including four gold medals, in eight head coaching stints with USA Basketball.

In addition to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and Indiana University Hall of Fame, VanDerveer has also been inducted into the Women's Sports Foundation Hall of Fame and the Greater Buffalo Hall of Fame.

VanDerveer, a Boston native who grew up in upstate New York, is also a published author. Her book Shooting From The Outside, which chronicled her 1996 Olympic and National Team experience, was released in September 1997.

 

 

 

Media Coverage

PRINT COVERAGE

Stanford Magazine July/ Aug
Now Little Girls Can Dream - Billie Jean King joins a Title IX conference.

San Francisco Chronicle, Insight section - June 24
Midlife Crisis for Title IX

Boston Globe - July 4
Female coaches leaving collegiate ranks

NCAA News - May 21, 2007
The Opportunities and Challenges of Title IX

Stanford Review - May 11, 2007
Billie Jean King Commemorates Title IX�s 35th Anniversary

San Jose Mercury News - May 2, 2007
Hutchison: Tennis legend Billie Jean King enlists all in quest for equality

Stanford Report - May 2, 2007
Experts reflect on Title IX's successes, challenges 35 years after law enacted

Palo Alto Weekly - April 30, 2007
King celebrates 35th year of Title IX at Stanford

San Jose Mercury News - April 29, 2007
Working the crowd with Billie Jean King - SHE'S STILL PUSHING SPORTS TO `GET THE GENDER CARD RIGHT'

San Jose Mercury News - April 27, 2007
Imus remarks a fitting prelude to Title IX event - WOMEN'S SPORTS ARE ON PEOPLE'S RADAR

San Jose Mercury News - April 27, 2007
Title IX conference

Stanford Report - April 25, 2007
Q&A: Billie Jean King on tennis and Title IX

San Francisco Chronicle - April 22, 2007
STANFORD: Billie Jean King talks Title IX history

Stanford Report - April 18, 2007
Billie Jean King, Title IX events scheduled for Saturday, April 28

Stanford Review - September 22, 2006
Title IX Turns Thirty-Five

 

BLOGS/ ONLINE

NACWAA - May 2007
Experts Reflect on Title IX's Successes, Challenges 35 Years After Law Enacted

NCAA Online Blog, key word "title ix"
On The Road: Title IX Today, Title IX Tomorrow

Divine Caroline - May 9, 2007
Title IX: Women Athletes Speak Out

Company Counselor Legal Blog - May 8, 2007
Billie Jean King Part II

Company Counselor Legal Blog - May 5, 2007
Billie Jean King Part I

Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog - April 30th
Gender-Equity Issues Take Center Stage at 2 Meetings on Title IX in College Sports

 

RADIO

KQED - April 26, 2007
"Forum with Michael Krasny" on Educational Activities and Title IX (audio file)

 

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