Wednesday, January 22, 2020
YLS Class of '90: Sarah Ricks
I have been devoting Wednesdays to profiling some of my classmates in the Yale Law School class of 1990 (and if you are interested I provided a recap of the profiles so far last week).
When Sarah Ricks got to Yale Law, she was pretty intimidating-- she seemed shockingly sophisticated, funny, and smart, even among that group. She came to Yale Law from Barnard College at Columbia. At Yale, she co-founded the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, and was chosen as the outstanding female graduate of the class.
After law school, she clerked for a District Court Judge in the Eastern District of Philadelphia (at the same time I clerked for another judge in the same building), then spent nine years working for a law firm and the City of Philadelphia.
Then she zigged and became a professor at Rutgers in Camden, teaching legal writing and other topics and running the Pro Bono Research Project there. She has been a real success and presence both on that campus and in her hometown of Philadelphia, where she served on the Commission on Human Relations among other positions.
Outside of work, she has done a lot of fascinating travel writing-- check this out to see her reports from places like Debrovnik, Sicily, Salzburg, and Montenegro. I love her writing style, and wish that I had discovered this treasure trove a long time ago! She is married to another member of the class, Tom Dolgenes (who will get his own profile later), and they have achieved an enviable level of work-life balance-- an example for us all.
