Rosalie E. Wahl

Sara Rosalie Wahl was an American feminist, lawyer, public defender, clinical law professor, and judge and the first woman to serve on the Minnesota Supreme Court where she served for seventeen years. Governor Perpich nominated Wahl to the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1977 and Wahl won the election to the seat in a non-partisan election in 1978, defeating three male candidates. She chaired the state's Gender Bias Taskforce and Racial Bias Taskforce and led the American Bar Association's efforts to establish clinical legal education. She was a champion for the mentally ill and for displaced homemakers. She wrote 549 opinions including for the majority in holding that different penalties for crack and powder cocaine were unconstitutional in State v. Russell . 

27 August 1924

Born on the same birth date (27 August 1924): David Rowbotham

Born on the same birth day (27 August): Aaron Downey • Ange Postecoglou • Ann Murray • Aris Velouchiotis • Cesária Évora • Edward Patten • George Brecht • Gholamreza Takhti • Hermann Weingärtner • Jessie Mei Li • Jim Thome • Kyung Lah • Tuesday Weld

Born in the same month (August 1924): Abdullah of Saudi Arabia • Alex Kellner • Dinah Washington • Fess Parker • Harishankar Parsai • Inez Voyce • Jack Weston • James Kirkwood Jr. • Mathews Barnabas • Phyllis Schlafly • Sverre Fehn • Tony MacGibbon • Zalman Schachter-Shalomi