Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Deborah A. Batts.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Batts, Deborah A., 1947-2020
• Jones, Adrienne (Interviewer)
• Burghelea, Neculai
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (10 video files (4 hr., 51 min., 52 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

U.S. District Court Judge Deborah A. Batts was born on April 13, 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned her B.A. degree in government from Radcliffe College in 1969; and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1972. Batts then worked at the corporate law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore before becoming an assistant U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York in 1979. In 1984, she became the first African American faculty member at Fordham University's School of Law. In 1994, Batts was named U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New York by President Clinton. She oversaw a number of high profile cases, including the trial of al-Qaeda co-founder Mamdouh Mahmud Salim and the widely publicized case against EPA Chief Christine Todd Whitman. Batts is active in the New York City Bar Association, Metropolitan Black Bar Association and Lesbian and Gay Law Association of Greater New York.

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Deborah A. Batts
• The Honorable Deborah A. Batts

Subject

• Batts, Deborah A., 1947-2020 > Interviews
• African Americans > Interviews
• African Americans
• Federal District Court Judge

Genre/Form

• Internet videos.
• Interviews.
• Nonfiction films.
• Oral histories.

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.

OCLC

994208934

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Deborah A. Batts.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States. naf

Playing Time

045152

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file

Performer

Adrienne Jones, interviewer.

Credits

Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.

Event

Recorded New York, New York 2007 August 15.

Recorded New York, New York 2007 September 20.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Indexed Term

Federal District Court Judge.

Added Author

Batts, Deborah A., 1947-2020, interviewee.

Jones, Adrienne (Interviewer), interviewer.

Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.