Legal Research and Writing Faculty and Codirector, Pro Bono Research Project. Ms. Ricks earned her J.D. at Yale Law School in 1990, where she cofounded the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. She earned her B.A. summa cum laude
in 1985 at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she was elected
to Phi Beta Kappa. After clerking for the Honorable Thomas N. O'Neill,
Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania, she joined Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz in
Philadelphia as a litigation associate. From 1995 to 2001, she was an
appellate and legislative attorney for the City of Philadelphia Law
Department, where she litigated federal and state appeals and argued
before the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the Pennsylvania
Commonwealth Court. She represented the City of Philadelphia in its
public school desegregation litigation and its litigation challenging
the Pennsylvania system of funding public education.
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