In this Simply Delicious
Living PODCAST, Host Maryann Ridini
Spencer speaks with Jill
Friedman, the 2016 Legacy Award Winner and
NAWBO Ventura Board Member
about her advocacy for women and women's issues.
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Jill
Friedman, NAWBO Ventura Board Member and a successful
civil litigation attorney dedicated to social justice and the
advancement of women and minorities in the legal profession,
receives the “Legacy Award” from Women Lawyers of
Ventura County (WLVC) at its annual dinner on September 15,
2016, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Museum
of Ventura County. Jill will also be the keynote
speaker.
Jill receives this prestigious
honor, in part, for her dedication to social justice and the
advancement of women and minorities in the legal profession. While
serving as a two-term President of WLVC (2011 and 2012), Jill
noticed a distinct lack of diversity among the judicial officers in
Ventura County. As a result, she was instrumental in organizing the
leaders of other bar association groups to form the Ventura County
Diversity Bar Alliance (VCDBA), which is committed to the
empowerment of women, people of color, and those historically
disenfranchised in the legal profession, through education and
advocacy in order to promote equal justice for our community and
achieve excellence and diversity in our legal
profession.
Jill is also responsible for
forging a lasting relationship between WLVC and Girls, Inc.,
(including a program at the Juvenile Justice Complex in Oxnard
where women lawyers work with incarcerated girls on a monthly basis
assisting them with education, money matters, confidence building,
and practical life skills).
In addition to being a crusader
of women’s rights, Jill also holds the prestigious position of
being named the first female partner of the law firm of
Myers, Widders, Gibson,
Jones & Feingold. She works as a successful trial
lawyer and civil litigation attorney in the areas of business,
employment, real estate, and personal injury..
Previous to her Legacy Award
honor, the Pacific Coast Business Times named Jill as one
of the “Top 50 Women in Business” and “Who's Who in Attorneys,” and
Legal publisher Martindale-Hubbell named her as one of
“Los Angeles's Women Leaders in the Law.”
Upon law school graduation in
1987, Jill first started practicing in Ventura County. In 1990, she
served as President of Ventura County Barristers, and the following
year Jill was named Vice-President of the California Young Lawyers
Association. In 1993, Jill returned to her hometown of Santa
Barbara to take care of her terminally ill mother, and during her
17 years of legal practice in Santa Barbara, she held a number of
bar leadership positions, including President of Santa Barbara
Women Lawyers. She returned to Ventura County in 2010 after raising
her three children.
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Find out more about the September
15, 2016 Women Lawyers of Ventura County (WLVC) dinner
event, click
here.
Find out more about Jill
and Meyers, Widders, Gibson, Jones & Feingold, LLP:
mwgjlaw.com
Visit NAWBO Ventura:
nawbovc.org