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Joyce Vance, Barb McQuade, Kimberly Atkins Stohr and Jill Wine-Banks

#SistersInLaw

Join the hosts of Politicon’s award-winning #SistersInLaw (MSNBC commentators Joyce Vance, Jill Wine-Banks, Barb McQuade and Kimberly Atkins Stohr) for a live taping of the hit podcast — and a conversation on the legal and political issues that matter most leading up to one of the most consequential presidential elections in a generation.

Election interference. Abortion rights. Executive power. Democracy itself. So much is on the line this November. What happens when two former US attorneys, a Watergate prosecutor, and a senior opinion writer get together on a mic to talk it out? Straightforward, witty, and whip-smart, #SistersInLaw breaks down the most complex legal and political issues of the day, making them accessible for everyone. Hear Vance, Wine-Banks, McQuade and Atkins Stohr, pull back the curtain on how our legal system really works — offering unvarnished, inside perspectives on the issues that matter most.

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Joyce Vance

Joyce White Vance is a Distinguished Professor from the Practice of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law …

Joyce Vance

Joyce White Vance is a Distinguished Professor from the Practice of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law, where her scholarship focuses on criminal justice reform and civil rights. She is a legal analyst with NBC and MSNBC. She was the United States Attorney in the Northern District of Alabama from August 2009 through January 2017, appointed by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the Senate.

Vance’s focus on civil rights included filing a statewide investigation into conditions in Alabama’s mens’ prisons, as well as a successful challenge of Alabama’s HB56 anti-immigration bill and a voting rights settlement with the state of Alabama that brought it into compliance with the Motor Voter Act. She created a community-engaged initiative to fight the epidemic of heroin and prescription opiate addiction, receiving the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Lou Wooster Public Health Hero Award for her work. Vance worked to improve police/community relationships. Under her leadership, Birmingham was designated as one of six pilot cities for the National Initiative on Building Community Trust and developed a successful Violence Reduction Initiative. She also created reentry programs designed to reduce recidivism among people returning to the community from prison. Among Vance’s major criminal prosecutions were the first material support of terrorism case in Alabama, the major fraud prosecutions of a Birmingham health care CEO, the director of the Alabama Small Business Consortium, and the executive director of the Jefferson County, Alabama, Committee for Economic Opportunity; and the prosecution of a man who attempted to hire an individual he thought was a KKK hitman to murder his African-American neighbor.

Prior to being named U.S. Attorney, Vance served in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office from 1991 to 2002, when she moved to the office’s appellate division. She became chief of that division in 2005.

Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s office, Vance worked as a litigator in private practice, first with Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin and Kahn in Washington, D.C. and then with Bradley, Arant (now Bradley, Arant, Boult, Cummings) in Birmingham. Vance is a 1985 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and a 1982 graduate of Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine. She is married to Alabama Circuit Judge Robert S. Vance, Jr. They have four children, three dogs, four cats and ten chickens.

Barb McQuade

Barbara L. McQuade is a law professor at the University of Michigan, where she teaches criminal law …

Barb McQuade

Barbara L. McQuade is a law professor at the University of Michigan, where she teaches criminal law, criminal procedure and national security law. She is also a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, and author of the New York Times bestseller, Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.

From 2010 to 2017, McQuade served as the U.S Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. She was appointed by President Barack Obama, and was the first woman to serve in her position. McQuade also served as vice chair of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee and co-chaired the Terrorism and National Security Subcommittee.

Before becoming U.S. Attorney, McQuade was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Detroit for 12 years, serving as Deputy Chief of the National Security Unit. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, McQuade practiced law at the firm of Butzel Long in Detroit from 1993 to 1998, and served as a law clerk to Hon. Bernard A. Friedman on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan from 1991 to 1993.

Born in Detroit, McQuade is a 1987 graduate of the University of Michigan and a 1991 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. She and her husband have four children. She serves on the boards of SafeHouse Center, Crime Stoppers of Michigan, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, and the Hudson-Webber Foundation.

McQuade has been recognized by the Detroit Free Press with the Neal Shine Award for Exemplary Regional Leadership, The Detroit News with the Michiganian of the Year Award, Crain’s Detroit Business as a Newsmaker of the Year and one of Detroit’s Most Influential Women, and the Detroit Branch NAACP and Arab American Civil Rights League with their Tribute to Justice Award.

Jill Wine-Banks

Jill Wine-Banks is the author of a memoir, The Watergate Girl, and an MSNBC Legal Analyst …

Jill Wine-Banks

Jill Wine-Banks is the author of a memoir, The Watergate Girl, and an MSNBC Legal Analyst. She also appears on PBS, Canadian and Australian television and radio, Sirius XM, NPR and other radio shows and podcasts. She co-hosts Intergenerational Politics Podcast. A sought-after speaker, Jill appears before professional, political, women’s and business groups, universities, and law schools. In addition, Jill has written OpEds for NBC.com, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Politico, Just Security, NY Daily News, Newsday and Huffington Post. She was featured in several films, including Academy Award winner Charles Ferguson’s Watergate, or How We Learned to Stop an Out of Control President, Robert Redford’s All The President’s Men Revisited, ABC 20/20, and Michael Moore’s Farenheit 11/8. She has over 450,000 Twitter followers and more on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Her memoir, The Watergate Girl, has been well reviewed.

Ms. Wine-Banks began her career as the first woman to serve as an organized crime prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. After just over four years, her trial capabilities and win record led to her selection as one of the three Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutors, and the only woman, on the obstruction of justice trial team against President Nixon’s top aides, including his Attorney General, Chief of Staff, and Chief Domestic Adviser. President Nixon was named an unindicted co-conspirator in that case. Her team delivered a briefcase of evidence to the House Judiciary Committee as a road map to impeachment. She was also a major player in the Watergate tapes hearing, cross examining Rose Mary Woods, President Nixon’s secretary, about the 18 ½ minute gap in a key White House recording.

At the conclusion of the Watergate case, Ms. Wine-Banks entered private practice at the D.C. offices of Fried Frank Harris Shriver and Kampelman, before being named General Counsel of the U.S. Army by President Carter where she supervised the world’s largest law firm, was a member of the Army Policy and Procurement Council and GC of the Panama Canal Corporation. She worked to eliminate the Woman’s Army Corps and integrate women into the Regular Army as well as into West Point and basic training. Ms. Wine-Banks has maintained her relationship with the Pentagon and was appointed by the Secretary of Defense to a Subcommittee on Sexual Assault in the Military, where she served from 2014 to 2017. The Subcommittee held hearings in D.C. and on military installations in the U.S. and abroad resulting in seven reports recommending improvements to the military’s handling of sexual assault cases, many of which have been adopted or enacted into law.

After the Pentagon, Ms. Wine-Banks returned to her hometown, Chicago, as a partner at Jenner and Block, before being appointed as Illinois’ first Solicitor General and then promoted to Deputy Attorney General (again the first female in that role). While there, she argued in the US and Illinois Supreme Courts, supervised all Illinois appellate cases and the Office of the Attorney General.

A national search then led to her appointment as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the American Bar Association, the largest professional association in America. She was the first woman in that role, too. This experience led to Ms. Wine-Banks’ decision to begin a corporate career at Motorola and later Maytag. At Motorola, Jill was responsible for international business development and the creation of cellular operating companies around the globe. Her first assignment was in Pakistan. Later, she was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Motorola’s joint venture company in St. Petersburg, Russia and also worked in Ukraine, China, Singapore, Europe and South America, often interacting with government officials in those countries and in Washington, D.C. After seven years at Motorola, Ms. Wine-Banks was recruited to serve as Maytag’s Vice President of Alliance Management, working extensively in Japan and Europe.

After Maytag, Ms. Wine-Banks served as CEO of Winning Workplaces, a nonprofit dedicated to helping small and mid-size businesses be more profitable by being better workplaces, as the followed by five years as the Chief Officer of career and technical education for the Chicago Public Schools under Arne Duncan. In that role she worked with Chicago’s corporate community, post-secondary educational institutions, and government agencies, and created Chicago’s first early college program, DeVry Advantage Academy High School where students graduated after four years with a diploma and an Associate Degree. The school remains one of the most successful in CPS.

Ms. Wine-Banks’ corporate board experience includes service as a member of the Boards of Directors of Cenvill Development Corporation, a retirement home and real estate development company in West Palm Beach, Florida, and of Ashworth, a for-profit education company in the Sterling Partners Portfolio.

Her current and recent civic and charitable activities include Chair of the Policy Committee of the Better Government Association, Vice Chair of the Executive Service Corps Board of Directors, the President’s Advisory Council of Governors State University, and the Advisory Board of the National Veterans Museum. She is active in The Chicago Network where she was formerly on the Board. She has also served on the Boards of the International Women’s Forum, the ACLU, Operation Green Jobs, Project Lead the Way and on the Board of Advisors of Roosevelt, the Board of Overseers of IIT’s Kent Law School and as Fundraising Co-Chair of the Journalism School at UIUC.

Ms. Wine-Banks has been the recipient of many awards, including several from the United States Department of Justice and the highest civilian award given by the United States Department of the Army, as well as awards from Illinois Legal Aid Online, the Girl Scouts, the YWCA, the Women’s Bar Association, Impact Fund, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Who’s Who in America. She also appears in other Who’s Who editions. She has a B.S. in Communications from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in New York City, and an Honorary Doctor of Law from Hood College.

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