Sonia Sotomayor (June 25, 1954 - )
Sonia Sotomayor made history on August 6, 2009, when the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Appointed by President Barack Obama, Sotomayor became the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice.
Sotomayor, the daughter of Puerto Rican-born parents, grew up in New York City. Her father died when she was 9 years old. After earning a bachelor's degree at Princeton University in 1976, Sotomayor went to Yale Law School. There, she was an editor of the prestigious Yale Law Journal before earning a law degree in 1979.
From 1979-1984, Sotomayor was an assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office. She then moved to the private sector, where she litigated international commercial matters at a prominent law firm. She rose to become a partner in the firm. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush appointed her to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. She served in that position until 1998. From 1998-2009, Sotomayor served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. she was appointed to that position by President Bill Clinton. In addition to her positions on the bench, Sotomayor also taught at Columbia Law School and New York University School of Law.
The Cocktail:
Agave Ginger 'Rita
1 oz tequila
1 oz lime juice
3/4 oz ginger simple syrup
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 2.5
Priority for Conservation: 5+
Comments: Best if you make your own ginger simple syrup
From "The Supremes" (Women of the Supreme Court) hosted by MPF
NYC chapter of Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails
Thursday, January 3, 2019
October 2018 - Sandra Day O'Connor - Villar Perosa
Sandra Day O'Connor (March 26, 1930 - )
Sandra Day grew up on a large family ranch near Duncan, Arizona. She received undergraduate (1950) and law (1952) degrees from Stanford University. Upon her graduation she married a classmate, John Jay O'Connor III. Unable to find employment in a law firm because she was a woman - despite her academic achievements, one firm offered her a job as a secretary - she became a deputy district attorney in San Mateo county, California. After a brief tenure, she and her husband, a member of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps, moved to Germany, where she served as a civil attorney for the army (1954-57).
Upon her return to the United States, O'Connor pursued private practice in Maryville, Arizona, becoming an assistant attorney general for the state (65-69). In 1969 she was elected as a Republican to the Arizona Senate (69-74), rising to the position. She later was elected a Superior Court judge in Maricopa county, a post she hed from 1975 - 1979, when she was appointed to the Arizona court of Appeals in Phoenix. In July 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated her to fill the vacancy left on the Supreme Court by the retirement of Justie Potter Stewart. Described by Reagan as a "person for all seasons," O'Connor was confirmed unanimously by the Senate and was sworn in as the first female justice on September 25, 1981.
In 2006 O'Connor retired from the Supreme Court and was replaced by Samuel Alito. She was the author of several books, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The Cocktail:
Villar Perosa
1 oz gin
.5 oz elderflower liquer
1 oz grapefruit juice
Drinkability: 2.5
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 3
Comments: FR abstains due to grapefruit - the others were not as enthusiastic
From "The Supremes" (Women of the Supreme Court) hosted by MPF
Sandra Day grew up on a large family ranch near Duncan, Arizona. She received undergraduate (1950) and law (1952) degrees from Stanford University. Upon her graduation she married a classmate, John Jay O'Connor III. Unable to find employment in a law firm because she was a woman - despite her academic achievements, one firm offered her a job as a secretary - she became a deputy district attorney in San Mateo county, California. After a brief tenure, she and her husband, a member of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps, moved to Germany, where she served as a civil attorney for the army (1954-57).
Upon her return to the United States, O'Connor pursued private practice in Maryville, Arizona, becoming an assistant attorney general for the state (65-69). In 1969 she was elected as a Republican to the Arizona Senate (69-74), rising to the position. She later was elected a Superior Court judge in Maricopa county, a post she hed from 1975 - 1979, when she was appointed to the Arizona court of Appeals in Phoenix. In July 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated her to fill the vacancy left on the Supreme Court by the retirement of Justie Potter Stewart. Described by Reagan as a "person for all seasons," O'Connor was confirmed unanimously by the Senate and was sworn in as the first female justice on September 25, 1981.
In 2006 O'Connor retired from the Supreme Court and was replaced by Samuel Alito. She was the author of several books, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The Cocktail:
Villar Perosa
1 oz gin
.5 oz elderflower liquer
1 oz grapefruit juice
Drinkability: 2.5
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 3
Comments: FR abstains due to grapefruit - the others were not as enthusiastic
From "The Supremes" (Women of the Supreme Court) hosted by MPF
October 2018 - Elana Kagan - Bourbon Cider
Elana Kagan - (April 20, 1960 - )
Kagan, the daughter of Robert Kagan, a lawyer, and Gloria Gittelman Kagan, an elementary school teacher, was raised in New York City. She received a B.A. in history from Princeton University in 1981 and then studied on a fellowship at the University of Oxford, where she received an M.Phil. in 1983. Afterward, she attended Harvard Law School, where she was awarded a J.D. in 1986
Kagan spent a few years in private practice in Washington, D.C., before becoming a law professor at the University of Chicago (where the future U.S. president Barack Obama was taught). Plucked out of academia by Pres. Bill Clinton, she served as associate White House counsel (1995-96) and then as deputy assistant (97-99) to Clinton on his Domestic Policy Counsel. In 1999 Clinton appointed Kagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, but the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled no hearings on her nomination. Future chief justice of the United States John G. Roberts was subsequently nominated to the post after George W. Bush became president.
Thereafter, she returned to academia at Harvard Law School, where she taught administrative law, constitutional law, and civil procedure and in 2003 was appointed dean overseeing fund-raising, improving student life, and developing a reputation as a pragmatist able to reduce tension among Harvard's notoriously fractious law faculty. In 2009 she was appointed by Obama to serve as the U.S. solicitor general; she was confirmed (61-31) by the U.S. Senate on march 19, becoming the first woman to occupy the post.
On May 10, 2010, Kagan was nominated by Obama to replace retiring justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. Because of her reputation for reaching out to conservatives - she had recruited several conservative professors at Harvard, hosted a dinner honouring conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, and received a standing ovation from the conservative Federalist Society - some liberals feared that she might not be a reliable vote for the court's liberal minority, though she was a passionate advocate of civil rights, including gay rights. Kagan was confirmed (63-37) by the Senate in August 2010.
The Cocktail:
Bourbon Cider
2 oz chilled apple cider
2 oz bourbon
2 oz chilled ginger beer
Drinkability:4
Drunkability: 2
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: BM dissented due to not liking ginger beer
From "The Supremes" (Women of the Supreme Court) hosted by MPF
Kagan, the daughter of Robert Kagan, a lawyer, and Gloria Gittelman Kagan, an elementary school teacher, was raised in New York City. She received a B.A. in history from Princeton University in 1981 and then studied on a fellowship at the University of Oxford, where she received an M.Phil. in 1983. Afterward, she attended Harvard Law School, where she was awarded a J.D. in 1986
Kagan spent a few years in private practice in Washington, D.C., before becoming a law professor at the University of Chicago (where the future U.S. president Barack Obama was taught). Plucked out of academia by Pres. Bill Clinton, she served as associate White House counsel (1995-96) and then as deputy assistant (97-99) to Clinton on his Domestic Policy Counsel. In 1999 Clinton appointed Kagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, but the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled no hearings on her nomination. Future chief justice of the United States John G. Roberts was subsequently nominated to the post after George W. Bush became president.
Thereafter, she returned to academia at Harvard Law School, where she taught administrative law, constitutional law, and civil procedure and in 2003 was appointed dean overseeing fund-raising, improving student life, and developing a reputation as a pragmatist able to reduce tension among Harvard's notoriously fractious law faculty. In 2009 she was appointed by Obama to serve as the U.S. solicitor general; she was confirmed (61-31) by the U.S. Senate on march 19, becoming the first woman to occupy the post.
On May 10, 2010, Kagan was nominated by Obama to replace retiring justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. Because of her reputation for reaching out to conservatives - she had recruited several conservative professors at Harvard, hosted a dinner honouring conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, and received a standing ovation from the conservative Federalist Society - some liberals feared that she might not be a reliable vote for the court's liberal minority, though she was a passionate advocate of civil rights, including gay rights. Kagan was confirmed (63-37) by the Senate in August 2010.
The Cocktail:
Bourbon Cider
2 oz chilled apple cider
2 oz bourbon
2 oz chilled ginger beer
Drinkability:4
Drunkability: 2
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: BM dissented due to not liking ginger beer
From "The Supremes" (Women of the Supreme Court) hosted by MPF
Thursday, September 13, 2018
September, 2018 - Margaret Murie - Maple Smash
Margaret Thomas Murie (1902-2003)
Born in Seattle Washington, and relocated at the age of 5 to Fairbanks, Alaska, “Mardy” is recognized as the “Grandmother of the Conservation Movement” by both the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society. After becoming the first woman to graduate from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, and marrying her husband in 1924, she moved to Jackson Wyoming where she accompanied her husband in studying ecology and the elk populations in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. She was instrumental in creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the passage of the Wilderness Act of 2964, and the recipient of the Audobon Medal, the John Muir Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After her husband’s death in 1963, Mardy continued the conservation work and became writing articles and letters, as well as making public speeches. She returned to Alaska to survey for the National Parks Service, and worked on the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act signed by Carter in 1980, doubling the size of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Drink:
Maple Smash
1 oz gin
1 oz maple brandy
juice from half a lemon
7-8 blueberries
1/4 oz maple syrup
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 4
Accessibility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 3
Priority for Conservation: 4
Comments: *AZ requests to lower Accessibility to at least 3 retrospectively. The maple liquor wasn't that easy to find.
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker
Born in Seattle Washington, and relocated at the age of 5 to Fairbanks, Alaska, “Mardy” is recognized as the “Grandmother of the Conservation Movement” by both the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society. After becoming the first woman to graduate from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, and marrying her husband in 1924, she moved to Jackson Wyoming where she accompanied her husband in studying ecology and the elk populations in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. She was instrumental in creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the passage of the Wilderness Act of 2964, and the recipient of the Audobon Medal, the John Muir Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After her husband’s death in 1963, Mardy continued the conservation work and became writing articles and letters, as well as making public speeches. She returned to Alaska to survey for the National Parks Service, and worked on the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act signed by Carter in 1980, doubling the size of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Drink:
Maple Smash
1 oz gin
1 oz maple brandy
juice from half a lemon
7-8 blueberries
1/4 oz maple syrup
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 4
Accessibility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 3
Priority for Conservation: 4
Comments: *AZ requests to lower Accessibility to at least 3 retrospectively. The maple liquor wasn't that easy to find.
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker
September, 2018 - Alice Eastwood - A Cure for What Ails You
Alice Eastwood (1859-1953)
Born in Toronto Canada, was an early ecofeminist. The family moved to Denver when she was a teenager, and would forgo college in lieu of teaching high school after graduating as valedictorian. She was a self-taught botanist, relying on botany manuals and local experience. She was known to wander the Rocky Mountains by herself looking for specimens, including climbing Mount Whitney. In 1891, her specimen collection was reviewed by the California Academy of Sciences, and she was hired to assist in the CAS’s Herbarium, being promoted to joint-curator in 1892. During her life she published over 310 scientific articles, and authored 395 land plant species names. She strongly advocated that local American flora should be preserved, and protected against disappearance or natural disasters. There are currently 17 recognized species named for her. She was also well known for her disregard of social convention, especially on how a lady should dress, and in her degree of candor.
The Drink:
A Cure for What Ails You
2 1/2 oz mead
1 1/2 oz ginger beer
1 oz lemon juice
Drinkability: 3 - 4
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 3
Taxic Diversity: 3
Priority for Conservation: 3 - 4
Comments: Opinions differed depending on how well you like spicy ginger beer.
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker
Born in Toronto Canada, was an early ecofeminist. The family moved to Denver when she was a teenager, and would forgo college in lieu of teaching high school after graduating as valedictorian. She was a self-taught botanist, relying on botany manuals and local experience. She was known to wander the Rocky Mountains by herself looking for specimens, including climbing Mount Whitney. In 1891, her specimen collection was reviewed by the California Academy of Sciences, and she was hired to assist in the CAS’s Herbarium, being promoted to joint-curator in 1892. During her life she published over 310 scientific articles, and authored 395 land plant species names. She strongly advocated that local American flora should be preserved, and protected against disappearance or natural disasters. There are currently 17 recognized species named for her. She was also well known for her disregard of social convention, especially on how a lady should dress, and in her degree of candor.
The Drink:
A Cure for What Ails You
2 1/2 oz mead
1 1/2 oz ginger beer
1 oz lemon juice
Drinkability: 3 - 4
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 3
Taxic Diversity: 3
Priority for Conservation: 3 - 4
Comments: Opinions differed depending on how well you like spicy ginger beer.
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker
September, 2018 - Ellen Richards - Mead-Hattan
Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911)
Born in Dunstable, MA, an only child, and was home schooled until the family moved to Westford in 1859. Her gift with Latin, French, and German made her in demand and allowed her to further her studies. She enrolled at Vassar College as a “special student” in 1868, graduating 2 years later with her bachelors, followed by a Masters by 1870. She was the one of the first women to break into the world of chemistry, and the first woman to attend MIT. She also worked as an unpaid chemistry lecturer at MIT from 1873-1878. Her passion became environmental nutrition and clean water, gathering 40,000 samples to study water quality in Massachusetts. This led to the development of the “Richards’ Normal Chlorine Map” which was predictive of inland water pollution in MA. She fought continually not only for water purity and her “humanist ecologist” cause, but for women’s equality, arguing that women’s unpaid labor in the home was the foundation of their second-class status and what kept modern capitalism in motion
The Drink
Mead-hattan
2 oz rye
2 oz cyser (a mead made with apple juice, a kind of half-mead/half-cider)
dash orange bitters
Drinkability: 2
Drunkability: 5
Accessibility: 2
Taxic Diversity: 2
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: President and Secretary agree that for a Manhattan, it's a 5+, Opal Hush added a dash of leftover honey syrup to hers and said it was much more to her liking.
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker
Born in Dunstable, MA, an only child, and was home schooled until the family moved to Westford in 1859. Her gift with Latin, French, and German made her in demand and allowed her to further her studies. She enrolled at Vassar College as a “special student” in 1868, graduating 2 years later with her bachelors, followed by a Masters by 1870. She was the one of the first women to break into the world of chemistry, and the first woman to attend MIT. She also worked as an unpaid chemistry lecturer at MIT from 1873-1878. Her passion became environmental nutrition and clean water, gathering 40,000 samples to study water quality in Massachusetts. This led to the development of the “Richards’ Normal Chlorine Map” which was predictive of inland water pollution in MA. She fought continually not only for water purity and her “humanist ecologist” cause, but for women’s equality, arguing that women’s unpaid labor in the home was the foundation of their second-class status and what kept modern capitalism in motion
The Drink
Mead-hattan
2 oz rye
2 oz cyser (a mead made with apple juice, a kind of half-mead/half-cider)
dash orange bitters
Drinkability: 2
Drunkability: 5
Accessibility: 2
Taxic Diversity: 2
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: President and Secretary agree that for a Manhattan, it's a 5+, Opal Hush added a dash of leftover honey syrup to hers and said it was much more to her liking.
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker
September, 2018 - Florence Baily - Bramble Variation
Florence Augusta Merriam Baily (1863 – 1948)
Born in Locust Grove, NY, grew to became not only an ornithologist,
and one of America’s first activists for the protection of birds, but also
published the first bird field guide, Birds
Through an Opera-Glass, published in 1890.
When she first started her study, the standards were based on
collections of skins; but she wanted to study the living birds in the field.
After college, she moved to Washington and helped organize the Audobon Society
of D.C. in 1897, and began to teach classes on birds the following year. Because of her activist work, she was also
instrumental in the passing of the Lacey Act of 1900 that banned illegally
traded wildlife to be sold across state lines. After marrying she would do
extensive field work with her husband in the American West, and documented her
studies in several books, including The
Handbook of Birds of the Western United States and The Birds of New Mexico. In 1908, a subspecies of mountain
chickadee was named in her honor; and in 1992, a mountain the southern Oregon
Cascade Range was named in honor of both her and her husband by the Oregon
Geographic Names Board.
The Drink
Bramble Variation
3 blackberries
1 oz gin
1 oz berry mead
3/4 oz lemon juice
3/4 oz honey syrup
Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 1
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: "AZ, you'd better find more raspberry mead, because we're going to need more of this for the Christmas party."
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and BoilerMaker
The Drink
Bramble Variation
3 blackberries
1 oz gin
1 oz berry mead
3/4 oz lemon juice
3/4 oz honey syrup
Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 1
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: "AZ, you'd better find more raspberry mead, because we're going to need more of this for the Christmas party."
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and BoilerMaker
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