[2] She earned her undergraduate degree at Cornell[1] where she met Alfred Appel, whom she went on to marry in 1957.
[1] After graduating she lived in Palo Alto and lectured and designed courses at Stanford University.
[4] While living in Palo Alto, she had two children, Karen and Richard Appel.
[5] She was the unanimous choice of the search committee in 1983, when she was appointed the dean of Loyola Law School despite being a woman in a male-dominated field and Jewish at a Jesuit institution.
[1] As dean, she was given many honors and awards, served on many important committees and panels (including as the chair of the ABA section on Legal Education from 1992–93), and fought to educate lawyers so that they could properly defend and help disadvantaged communities.