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heightened awareness of op-
portunities for women."
The result, according to Ms.
Johnson-Wynn, is that many
employers have not only hired
and promoted more women, but
policies are now common in the
profession to accommodate the
lifestyles of those women who
choose to balance a career with
the demands of motherhood.
After years of placing their ca-
reers as top priority, both Ms.
Rubin and Ms. Nelson have
made recent decisions that have
fundamentally changed their
lives.
Last November, Ms. Nelson
was married. She's cut back on
her participation in the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan De-
troit. But she continues to find
time to serve as a board mem-
ber of the Child Abuse Neglect
Council of Oakland County
(CANCO) and the Women Sur-
vival Center of Oakland County.
And, within the last several
months, Ms. Rubin has an-
nounced that she's seeking the
52-3 District Court judicial seat,
which covers northeastern Oak-
land County. Since she cannot
accept campaign contributions
until next year, Ms. Rubin has
established a rigorous schedule
to speak to community groups
and spread the word of her im-
pending candidacy among her
colleagues.
As a third-generation barris-
ter, Ms. Rubin's ambition re-
flects a family tradition. Her
grandparents were both attor-
neys, and her grandmother,
Melba Rubin, was the first
woman from the Detroit area to
serve as assistant state attorney
general. And, after nearly 30
years, her father retired recently
from the attorney general's
office.
"It might be in our blood to be
prosecutors," she said.
Growing up, Ms. Rubin often
watched her father argue for the
prosecution. One time, she re-
called, she was shocked to see
her father go head-to-head with
a defense attorney, then after-
wards, shake his hand and ask
him to lunch. That was the
moment when she realized civil-
ity and advocacy were insepa-
rable.
"He taught me that you can
bring in the principles you use
in life to being an attorney," she
said. "If attorneys got along bet-
ter, maybe then we wouldn't be
nit-picking in court."
As a prosecutor, and hopeful
judge, Ms. Rubin said she can
be stone-faced and objective, but
not indifferent. In a drunk driv-
ing case where a 19-year-old
mother was killed, Ms. Rubin re-
called arguing her case in court,
then going out to the hallway to
cry alongside members of Moth-
ers Against Drunk Drivers.
`Those cases are preventable,"
she said. "Two lives are wasted
plus the families are forever
changed."
Meanwhile, most of Ms. Nel-
son's cases are appointed by
Wayne, Oakland and Macomb
courts, but she won't handle a
murder case nor a case if a child
has been exploited or victimized.
"My conscience couldn't take
it," she said.
While more women have in-
tegrated the legal profession,
women attorneys are regularly
confronted with prejudices about
their gender.
On a bitterly cold January
morning, Ms. Rubin answers the
phone in her third floor office in
the Prosecutor's Office. The voice
on the other end is anything but
cordial or warm. It's the father
of a woman who claims she was
raped. He wants the person
who's been accused to be imme-
diately locked up. _/
In a detached and judicious
manner, Ms. Rubin explains
that she has asked investigators
for more information before
she'll seek a warrant.
With growing hostility, the
angry father tells Ms. Rubin
that she's letting the attorney of
the accused walk over her. She
listens and waits. She's heard
the line before. "That caller
wouldn't have talked to a male (\
attorney like that," she said.
Finally, she persists, and ex-
plains that everyone is entitled
to due process of law. Li