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Oregon State Bar Book Review

Oregon State Bar Book Review

[From Oregon State Bar] A “Tell-Enough” Memoir Chronicle of a 20th Century Pioneer By Ira Zarov, May 2008 In 1955 Betty Roberts, now known as Justice Betty Roberts, was a 32-year old banker’s wife, a housewife with four children, living in LaGrande, Ore. That year, she had taken the radical step for a woman of […]

Willamette Week Book Review

Willamette Week Book Review

[From Willamette Week] By Richard Meeker; published on June 11, 2008. Betty Roberts, With Grit And By Grace – A woman on top, for all the right reasons. One of Oregon’s most redeeming qualities is this: One person can make a difference here. In the case of Betty Roberts, that difference is huge; and when the […]

Statesman Journal Interview

Statesman Journal Interview

[From the Statesman Journal] Roberts broke down barriers for women State’s first female court justice shares her story in a new book By Peter Wong, published June 9, 2008 Betty Roberts has blazed a number of Oregon trails. At age 32, already a mother, she returned to college — and then got a law degree […]

Oregonian Book Review

Oregonian Book Review

[From The Oregonian] The autobiography of Betty Roberts, “With Grit and by Grace: Breaking Trails in Law and Politics,” (Oregon State University Press, $24.95 paperback, 288 pages) begins with a description of growing up in Texas in 1930s. Life was not easy. Sometimes there wasn’t enough to eat. In 1942 Betty Cantrell met Bill Rice, a serviceman […]