Ronnie Lynn Podolefsky (born 1950) is an American attorney, legal historian, social justice advocate, and feminist.
She continued her education at Stony Brook University, earning a degree in biology and a certification in nuclear medical technology in 1971.
[3][4] In 1990, she and her husband and children moved to Waterloo, Iowa,[5] where she worked in nuclear medical technology, and returned to school, obtaining a J.D.
[8] She was honored with the Robert S. Hunt Award in Constitutional History and her article The Illusion of Suffrage: Female Voting Rights and the Women's Poll Tax Repeal Movement After the Nineteenth Amendment won the National Feminist Jurisprudence Writing Competition, sponsored by the American University in Washington, D. C., in 1997.
[14] According to Associated Press reporter, Alan Scher Zagier, the case caused a "fissure" in the community and backlash against the Podolefskys; her husband's contract at the university was not renewed.