Mary Cynthia Dunlap

(1949-2003)
California

Mary C. Dunlap attended Boalt Hall law school in the 1960s. After law school she joined Nancy Davis and Wendy Webster Williams, and with the help of a Carnegie grant founded Davis, Dunlap and Williams, a nonprofit law firm called Equal Rights Advocates "devoted to reforming gender-based laws and practices and teaching a clinical program for Stanford law students." The firm partners developed a Women and the Law course which they co-taught at the University of San Francisco, University of Santa Clara, Golden Gate University, and at Stanford.

Mary Dunlap was also a poet.

After the partners in Equal Rights Advocates went their separate ways, Mary Dunlap continued "teaching, speaking, and litigating . . . for social justice. She developed a sexual orientation class that she taught at several Bay Area law schools. She represented an air traffic controller discharged from the military because of her sexual orientation; a pregnant school teacher who was sent home on mandatory maternity leave . . .; a Boalt Hall professor in her sex discrimination case for denial of tenure; women seeking to be firefighters in the San Francisco Fire Department; and the Gay Olympic Games in its fight to keep the word 'Olympics' in its name. She continued to write—law review articles, poetry, a memoir. She took a few years away from law to paint, write, and address, with her characteristic honesty and intensity, the psychological consequences of her childhood abuse." [Wendy Webster Williams, The Gifts of Mary Dunlap (1949-2003), 19 Berkeley Women's L.J. 12 (2004)]

Poems

Mary C. Dunlap, Untitled Poem, 19 Berkeley Women's L.J. 2 (2004)

____________, Waves (Poem), 19 Berkeley Women's L.J. 6 (2004)

____________, An Interruption to Answer the Death-Death Drumbeat Planted in My Head by Well-Meaning "Western Med" (Poem), 19 Berkeley Women's L. J. 11 (2004)

____________, Choosing to Empahtize (Poem), 19 Berkeley Women's L.J. 17 (2004)

Writings

Mary C. Dunlap, Sex Discrimination in Employment: Application of Title VII (Santa Cruz, California: Community Law Reports, 1975)

Mary C. Dunlap & LeAnna Gipson, Opening Statements: A Basic Trial Advocacy Skills Series for Legal Services Advocates (Washington, D.C.: Advocacy Training and Development Unit, Legal Services Corp., 1981)

Mary C. Dunlap, OCC Special Report: Performance and Productivity as to Complaint Caseload (San Francisco: [Office of Civilian Complaints?], 1999)

____________, Allegations of Discriminatory Law Enforcement Against SFPD Officers: A Need for Further Information (San Francisco: [Office of Civilian Complaints?], 1999)

Writings: Articles

Mary C. Dunlap,  Gay Men and Lesbians Down by Law in the 1990's USA: The Continuing Toll of Bowers v. Hardwick, 24 Golden Gate U.L. Rev. 1 (1994)

____________,  Are We Integrated Yet? Pursuing the Complex Question of Values, Demographics and Personalities, 29 U.S.F.L. Rev. 693 (1995)

Bibliography

Patricia A. Cain, "The Right to Be Sexual" (Revisited): Remembering Mary Dunlap, 19 Berkeley's Women's L.J. 19 (2004)

David B. Cruz, A Real "People" Person, 19 Berkeley's Women's L.J. 7 (2004)

Herma Hill Kay, Remembering Mary Dunlap as a Student, 19 Berkeley Women's L.J. 3 (2004)

Wendy Webster Williams, The Gifts of Mary Dunlap (1949-2003), 19 Berkeley Women's L.J. 12 (2004)