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Sally Kenney

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Title & Affiliation
Professor Executive Director, Newcomb College Institute, Tulane University
Bio

Sally J. Kenney joined Tulane University in 2010. She served on the faculty at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs from 1995-2009 where she also directed the Center on Women and Public Policy. From 1989-1995, she held a joint appointment in Political Science, Women's Studies, and Law at the University of Iowa.

Dr. Kenney is a founder of the Infinity Project, which works to support the appointment of more women to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and has served on the Minnesota Supreme Court’s Gender Fairness Implementation Committee. She is the co-founder and co-chair of the Law & Society’s Collaborative Research Network on Women Judges. She directed a Feminist Leadership Fellows Program and Women Legislators Retreats. She has also served on the boards of Watch, the court monitoring organization, the Minnesota Women’s Campaign Fund, and the University of Minnesota Press.  She has served as a consultant to the US Congress's House Education and Labor Committee on discrimination resulting from fetal protection policies.

Professor Kenney's research interests include gender and judging, judicial selection, feminist social movements, women and electoral politics, exclusionary employment policies, and pregnancy discrimination. Her latest book, Gender and Justice: Why Women Judges Really Matter, will be published by Routledge in March. She is the author of For Whose Protection? Reproductive Hazards and Exclusionary Policies in the United States and Britain, and is the co-editor of Politics and Feminist Standpoint Theories and Constitutional Dialogues in Comparative Perspective. Her work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Law and Social Inquiry, Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Politics, Women and Politics, Politics & Gender, Mobilization, and Judicature as well as in law reviews. She is currently at work on Case Studies on Women and Public Policy.