Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman and the 102nd person to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. She retired from her position on January 31, 2006. O'Connor majored in economics at Stanford University and graduated with high honors. She continued her graduate work there. It was during her work as editor on the Stanford Law Review that she met John Jay O'Connor III, also attending law school at Stanford. In 1952 she graduated from law school, again with honors, and soon thereafter was married to John O'Connor. Despite her excellent scholastic record, it was difficult for women to find positions as lawyers. Her husband practiced law for a few years before they decided to build a home in north Phoenix. Their first child, Scott, was born in 1957. Two more sons joined the family in 1960 and 1962. In 1965, Sandra Day O'Connor went to work on a part-time basis for the Arizona attorney general's office. In 1969 she was appointed to the state Senate and was subsequently re-elected to that position. In 1973 Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman to serve as the majority leader of a state Senate. In 1974 Sandra Day O'Connor was elected to a position of trial judge for Maricopa County and 5 years later was appointed by then Governor Bruce Babbitt to the Court of Appeals. On July 7, 1981 President Reagan announced that Sandra Day O'Connor was his appointee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by Associate Justice Potter Stewart's retirement. She was confirmed by a Judiciary Committee vote of 17 to 1 and won approval by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 99 to 0. Justice O'Connor was regarded as a consummate compromiser; her goal on issues was simply to achieve a majority vote. She is considered to be tough and is a conservative, but not as tough or conservative when it comes to women's rights and children. O'Connor made it clear that she believes a court's role, including that of the Supreme Court, is to interpret and not to legislate. She has been referred to as the most influential women in America. In July 2005 Sandra Day O'Connor announced that she would retire from her position as a Supreme Court Justice as soon as a replacement was appointed. Justice Samuel Alito succeeded her on January 31, 2006.
Neal Gottlieb is the founder of Three Twins Ice Cream. Three Twins Ice Cream was certified organic in April 2006, joined One Percent For The Planet and sells to both restaurants and the Berkeley Farmers' Market. The shop also has ice cream pints available in local supermarkets.
As of November 2007, Three Twins Ice Cream can be found in more than 30 different locations and is working on opening its second retail store in Napa's Oxbow Public Market.
Gottlieb previously served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the old city of Taroudant Morocco from 2002 - 2003. His tenure in Morocco was cut short when the war in Iraq led to the evacuation of the program. Upon returning the States, Gottlieb was employed at Levi Strauss's corporate headquarters prior to starting his company.
Neal Gottlieb is a graduate of Cornell University.
Rob Erlichman is the Founder and President of Sunlight Electric. In addition to his role at Sunlight Electric, Erlichman is involved in industry-wide efforts to help accelerate the adoption of solar power. He recently co-authored a white paper featured in the Red Herring entitled, "What the Solar Power Industry Can Learn from Google" and Erlichman also advises The Clean Energy States Alliance on ways their member state solar subsidy program managers can implement standards and practices that level the playing field for manufacturers and solar integrators and ensure transparency for consumers.
Before founding Sunlight Electric, Erlichman was a technology marketing executive and entrepreneur, a management strategy consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton, and one of Proctor & Gamble's youngest brand managers at the age of twenty-five.
Rob Erlichman holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in Applied Economics.
Randy Pausch is a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon, where he was the co-founder of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). He was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. He has done Sabbaticals at Walt Disney Imagineering and Electronic Arts (EA), and consulted with Google on user interface design. In addition, he is the author or co-author of five books and over 70 articles and until recently, was the director of the Alice (www.alice.org) software project.
In August 2006, Pausch was diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer. He pursued a very aggressive cancer treatment that included major surgery and experimental chemotherapy; however, in August 2007, he was told the cancer had metastasized to his liver and spleen, which meant it was terminal. He then started palliative chemotherapy, intended to extend his life as long as possible.
He achieved worldwide fame for his "The Last Lecture" speech on September 18, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon University. His "Last Lecture" was entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," and was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures at the university where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical "final talk."
The eClips team was deeply moved by Pausch's message and felt it would be appropriate to "eClip" the content of his talk into 2-4 minute segments so that educators would be able to incorporate pieces of it into their classroom presentations. In keeping with the video's creative ocmmons license, we are making it available for non-commercial purposes.
Randy Pausch received his bachelors in Computer Science from Brown University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dar Caldwell is a founding partner of LaunchHouse, a Cleveland-based business incubator and seed capital investment group that invests money, mentorship, education and business development resources into the Midwest's most promising young entrepreneurs. The young investors of LaunchHouse (almost all are under the age of 30) manage a diverse portfolio of technology, alternative energy, global aid, urban agriculture and medical device ventures. They have converted a vacant car dealership in Shaker Heights into 23,000 sq. ft. affordable and collaborative work space that is home to over 50 exciting startup ventures. Dar Caldwell is a graduate of Cornell University.
As CEO and cofounder of Dancing Deer Baking Co. Trish Karter marries her creative, artistic, environmental, community and business interests. Situated in Boston's inner city, Dancing Deer has received the food industry's equivalent of the "Oscars" many times over, Inc. Magazine's listing in the top 100 Inner City companies, FleetBoston's 2002 Small Business Leadership Award for Innovation, 2001 and 2005 Chamber of Commerce Award for Excellence, Fortune Small Busniess Best Bosses Award 2005, 2000 SBANE New Englander Award for Innovation, 1999 Brand Design Award from the American Institute of Graphic Artists and many other honors. All Dancing Deer employees are shareholders and its philosophy is that when people are happy it shows in the food. The company partners in a philanthropic venture called the Sweet Home Project, with the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Foundation. Dancing Deer donates 35% of the retail price from the Sweet Home product line to programs to end family homelessness. In 2002 Karter was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Wheaton College in Norton, MA for her accomplishments. She also holds a master's degree in public and private management from Yale University.
David Audretsch is an American economist. He is currently the Director at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena in Germany. He is also the Ameritech Chair of Economic Developmentat the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Director of the Institute for Development Strategies at Indiana University and a research fellow at the CEPR, London. He is also co-founder and co-editor of the academic journal on entrepreneurship and small business called Small Business Economics.
David Audretsch received his B.A. at Drew University in 1976, his M.S. in Economics in 1979 and later his doctorate in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Barbara and Steve Smith purchased Meadowsweet Farms in 1995 to create a family business in Lodi, NY.
Since the family has taken over the operations, several aspects of the business have changed. The original product mix of 50% yogurt and 50% milk (sold to processors) has been modified and expanded to meet market demand. The current product mix includes locally-sold beef and dairy products (yogurt, kefir, cheese, and raw milk). All of these products are organically produced.
Barbara and Steve Smith purchased Meadowsweet Farms in 1995 to create a family business in Lodi, NY.
Since the family has taken over the operations, several aspects of the business have changed. The original product mix of 50% yogurt and 50% milk (sold to processors) has been modified and expanded to meet market demand. The current product mix includes locally-sold beef and dairy products (yogurt, kefir, cheese, and raw milk). All of these products are organically produced.