Rutgers University#8211Camden chancellor receives 2019 Ruth Bader Ginsburg award

Rutgers University-Camden Chancellor Phoebe Haddon has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of American Law Schools Section on Women in Legal Education, according to Rutgers.Rutgers University-Camden Chancellor Phoebe Haddon has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of American Law Schools Section on Women in Legal Education, according to Rutgers.

The award honors people who have exemplary careers that demonstrate outstanding contributions to the legal academy and the legal profession through their teaching, service and scholarship. Recipients are selected on how their work impacts women, the legal community, the academy and issues that affect women through mentoring, writing, speaking and activism, and by providing opportunities to others.

Haddon will receive the Ginsburg Award during the AALS annual meeting in New Orleans on Friday, Jan. 4. The AALS established the award in 2013, when the inaugural award honored its namesake U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The AALS is an organization of 179 law schools in the United States that seeks to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.

Haddon has also been named the recipient of a 2019 Smith College Medal, which recognizes alumnae who exemplify in their lives and work the ability of a liberal arts education to transform lives and communities. Haddon graduated from Smith College in 1972, earned a juris doctorate from Duquesne University School of Law in 1977 and an LL.M. from Yale University Law School in 1985. 

Haddon became chancellor of Rutgers University–Camden in 2014, assuming direct responsibility for the daily administration of a campus with more than 7,600 students and 1,300 employees. Under her leadership, the university has widened affordable access through its Bridging the Gap program to provide full or significant tuition coverage for New Jersey’s working families. She has also expanded the university’s nationally recognized civic engagement program.