Editor’s note: Connecticut Superior Court Judges Patty Jenkins Pittman and Mary Sommer attended the 12th biennial conference of the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ), in Arusha, Tanzania, in early May. This is their account of what they call the trip of a lifetime.
We both are members of the National Association of Women Judges and have welcomed the opportunity to travel and meet our peers from across the country. When we learned that the NAWJ’s sister organization was going to hold its biennial meeting in Tanzania, in East Africa, we decided to really expand our horizons and exchange ideas with women judges from around the world.
