Retired judge, prize-win­ning his­to­ri­an, and doc­u­men­tary film pro­duc­er, Lise Pearl­man was unique­ly qual­i­fied to write the defin­i­tive biog­ra­phy of trail-blaz­ing lawyer Fay Sten­der. Pearl­man is also Jew­ish, clerked on the Cal­i­for­nia Supreme Court, served on the Board of Cal­i­for­nia Women Lawyers, and has been rec­og­nized as a pio­neer, as she was in the first class of women at Yale.