Tributes and Honors
From the Bench
“Celebrating Selma — Pillar of the California Supreme Court Historical Society,” CSCHS Newsletter (Spring/Summer 2019): 19-20.
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“California Supreme Court Historical Society grant honors Selma Moidel Smith,” Daily Journal (Los Angeles and San Francisco), March 12, 2019.
By Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, Associate Justice (Ret.), California Supreme Court
By Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, Associate Justice, California Supreme Court
CSCHS Newsletter (Spring/Summer 2012): 2-5.
By Arthur Gilbert, Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal, 2nd District, Division 6
Daily Journal (Los Angeles and San Francisco), April 3, 2019
California Supreme Court Historical Society
Selma Moidel Smith Student Writing Competition in California Legal History
Student Writing Competition in California Legal History, initiated by Selma in 2007 and conducted by her each year
“Competition Renamed” in Honor of Selma by the Society at her 95th Birthday Celebration, 2014
CSCHS Newsletter (Fall/Winter 2014): 24.
Fellows of the American Bar Foundation
Inaugural Life Fellow Achievement Award
Award Proposed and Presented by Judge Bernice B. Donald, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Memphis), past president of the American Bar Foundation, at a Special Reception in Selma's honor at the ABA Midyear Meeting, San Diego, February 7, 2016 — at which all of the music consisted of Selma's own compositions.
“This award recognizes a lifetime of extraordinary leadership, not only within the legal profession, but throughout the larger community and beyond.”
WLALA E-Newsletter, March 2016
Feature story on Selma Moidel Smith receiving Inaugural Life Fellow Award, 2016 — Click to open
National Association of Women Lawyers
“A Conversation with Selma Moidel Smith”
Interview by Sarretta McDonough, NAWL President-Elect
Women Lawyers Journal 102: 3 (Fall 2017): 28-33.
Honoring the women for whom NAWL’s awards are named:
By Col. Maritza Ryan, Professor and Head of the Department of Law, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Women Lawyers Journal 98:1&2 (December 2013): 6.
— Col. Maritza Ryan, Executive Editor, Women Lawyers Journal 98:1&2 (December 2013): 6.
“Talented writer gives NAWL more than words”
Biographical Feature introducing Selma’s “Centennial History of NAWL”
Women Lawyers Journal (Summer 1999): 16.
Selma Moidel Smith receives the NAWL LIfetime of Service Award from President Susan Fox Gillis (left), NAWL Annual Meeting, Atlanta, August 7, 1999.
First Year Call for Entries — Click to open
Annual Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition on Women and the Law
Announced as a surprise honor for Selma by President Stephanie Scharf at the NAWL Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 4, 2005.
Women Lawyers Journal — Click to open
Women Lawyers Journal 91:3 (Summer 2006): 22.
Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
“Wishing Selma Moidel Smith a Happy 100th Birthday”
By Kelsey Maher and Elizabeth Bock, Co-Chairs of the WLALA History Project
WLALA Newsletter 24:8 (April 2019)
“WLALA Trailblazer and Living Gem: Selma Moidel Smith”
By Susan J. Dewitt, Assistant United States Attorney
WLALA E-Newsletter (January 2017)
“Selma Moidel Smith’s 70th Anniversary as an Attorney and Member of WLALA”
By Ruth D. Kahn, President
WLALA Newsletter (January 2013)
First and Only Honorary Life Member of WLALA:
“Life Membership in WLALA” — Biographical Feature on occasion of awarding WLALA’s first and only Honorary Life Membership to Selma Moidel Smith by President Linda S. Peterson, September 16, 1998.
WLALA Newsletter (November 1998): cover story.
American Bar Association, Senior Lawyers Division
Selma Moidel Smith Celebrates Her 100th Birthday
Feature and Interview
By Michael J. Van Zandt, Chair, Experience Editorial Board (formerly chaired by Selma)
Experience Magazine 29:4 (July/August 2019): 21-22.
Congratulations to Selma on her appointment as first woman chair, Experience Magazine Editorial Board
Program Book, ABA Commission on Women in the Profession Annual Luncheon, Atlanta, August 8, 1999.
“Member Spotlight: Selma Moidel Smith”
Biographical Feature and Interview
Voice of Experience Newsletter 1:2 (February 2016).
Dedication of Experience Magazine Issue to Selma
By Malinda C. Allen, Chair, Experience Editorial Board (formerly chaired by Selma)
Experience Magazine 22:1 (Spring 2012): 1.
International Federation of Women Lawyers
“Woman Lawyer from California Comes to Congress of Women Jurists”
El Caribe Newspaper, Dominican Republic, April 25, 1956.
Decorated “La Orden del Mérito Juan Pablo Duarte” by the Government and Congress of the Dominican Republic, 1956.
50 Years in the Law — 1993
Los Angeles County Bar Association — induction of “50 Year Club” members, including Selma Moidel Smith (right) and Justice Stanley Mosk (center right) — Biltmore Hotel Crystal Ballroom, May 18, 1993.