DC Bar Profile on RNLA Founder Betty Southard-Murphy

One of RNLA's founding members, Betty Southard-Murphy passed away this past weekend. In honor of Betty's memory, take a look at a profile that was written in 1996 on Betty's career. The piece looks at her days as a reporter with UPI to work with the National Labor Relations Board and the administrator of the Federal Wage and Hour Division and finally to private practice. It is a good read and shows just how Betty was a "Legend of the Law".

Here is a small sampling of a must read profile of a great attorney and great friend of the RNLA.

A specialist in U.S. and international employment law, Betty Southard Murphy is the only person to have served as both chairman of the National Labor Relations Board and administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor. Her five additional Presidential appointments include the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution on which she chaired the International Advisory Committee and the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes. A partner in Baker & Hostetler since 1980, Murphy has tried cases in 25 states, and has appeared in nine U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the Supreme Court.