Elizabeth Warren Listed As “Woman of Color In Legal Academia”
Michael Patrick Leahy, writing at Breitbart.com,[] located an article in the Spring 1993 issue of the student-run Harvard Women’s Law Journal,[] when Warren was a visiting professor at Harvard Law, in which Warren was on the list of ”Women of Color in Legal Academia.”
The Journal used the 1991-1992 AALS directory list of Minority Law Teachers — on which Warren’s name appeared as we now know[] based on her claiming Native American status – as a starting point, then gathered other information from other sources, and then sent out confirmation letters.[]
The bio was current as of 1993, listing Warren as being a visitor at Harvard, so it was not just stale information pulled from the 1991-1992 AALS directory.[]
Leahy also spoke with Charles W. Mooney, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School since 1986,who confirmed that Warren “mentioned that she had Native American heritage. She didn’t keep that a secret, but I don’t remember any particular context where she raised it.”[]
Warren stated that she never used her alleged Native American status when applying for jobs.[] It was, however, common knowledge among her law school peers, particularly by the time she was under consideration by Harvard. Even the students at the Harvard Women’s Law Journal in 1993 — right at the time[] Warren was under consideration for a permanent position – knew to list Warren as a “woman of color.”