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Ohio Supreme Court...
Women Justices
Speak at Buckeye Girls State
June 15, 2012
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Dublin Jerome High School student Alison Trianfo wants to be a
prosecuting attorney advocating for children’s rights when she gets
older.
Trianfo will be a senior next year and said it was an honor and a
privilege to be one of about 125 students to participate in a question
and answer session with Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen
O’Connor and Justices Evelyn Lundberg Stratton, Judith Ann Lanzinger
and Yvette McGee Brown during Buckeye Girls State (BGS).
“The program was amazing. I’m so honored to have the opportunity to be
able to listen to the justices talk,” Trianfo said. “They were very
inspiring, and it was nice to see they were real people, too. I mean
they’ve demonstrated such poise and leadership in their positions, and
it was great to see that they are people just like us.”
Buckeye Girls State is a weeklong program, held at the University of
Mount Union in Alliance, that educates girls in good citizenship while
helping them learn the mechanics of city, county, and state government
through a non-partisan approach.
The justices spoke to the students about the judicial system and how
they became Ohio Supreme Court justices. The justices also answered
several questions from the girls about the court system, being a women
leader and balancing their lives.
“If we can do it, you can do it. You’ve learned more about us. You know
what our stories are and you can see, number one we’re ordinary people
with ordinary talents and maybe a little extraordinary drive and we
happen to be in extraordinary positions,” Chief Justice O’Connor told
the girls.
BGS is sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary of Ohio. It’s one of
the largest Girls States in the nation with around 1,000 students
participating each year. This was the first time in the program’s
history that all of the women on the Supreme Court participated in BGS.
This program was titled “The Power of One” and was modeled on a program
the justices participated in last year to celebrate Rosa Parks Day.
Read the article and see the video at The Ohio Supreme Court
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