<sod>Law professor Beverly Blair Cook developed the idea<ref>Lee Epstein, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gr0iKT-8RewC&lpg=PA56&dq=National%20Association%20of%20Women%20Judges&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q=National%20Association%20of%20Women%20Judges&f=false "Beverly Blair Cook"] in Rebecca May Salokar and Mary L. Volcansek, eds., ''Women in Law: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook'' (Greenwood Publishing Group 1996): 56. ISBN 9780313294105</ref> with two of her interviewees, [[Vaino Spencer]] and Joan Dempsey Klein, both justices on the California Courts of Appeal. Cook gave the keynote address at the first annual meeting in 1979, in Los Angeles.<ref>Fred Strebeigh, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2zn6WTSsroUC&lpg=PA572&dq=National%20Association%20of%20Women%20Judges&pg=PA372#v=onepage&q=National%20Association%20of%20Women%20Judges&f=false ''Equal: Women Reshape American Law''] (W. W. Norton 2009): 372. ISBN 9780393089554</ref><eod>
<sod>Law professor Beverly Blair Cook developed the idea<ref>Lee Epstein, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gr0iKT-8RewC&lpg=PA56&dq=National%20Association%20of%20Women%20Judges&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q=National%20Association%20of%20Women%20Judges&f=false "Beverly Blair Cook"] in Rebecca May Salokar and Mary L. Volcansek, eds., ''Women in Law: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook'' (Greenwood Publishing Group 1996): 56. ISBN 9780313294105</ref> with two justices on the [[California Courts of Appeal]], [[Vaino Spencer]] and Joan Dempsey Klein. Cook gave the keynote address at the first annual meeting in 1979, in Los Angeles.<ref>Fred Strebeigh, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2zn6WTSsroUC&lpg=PA572&dq=National%20Association%20of%20Women%20Judges&pg=PA372#v=onepage&q=National%20Association%20of%20Women%20Judges&f=false ''Equal: Women Reshape American Law''] (W. W. Norton 2009): 372. ISBN 9780393089554</ref><eod>