"Opportunities and Obstacles Facing Women and Minorities" will be the topic of a seminar sponsored by the CWRU Women's Law Association from 5-7 p.m. April 16 in Room A59 of the law school.

The keynote speaker for the event will be U.S. Rep Stephanie Tubbs Jones, (D-Ohio) a 1974 graduate of the law school. Jones is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Committee for Standards of Official Conduct. Before being elected to Congress in 1998 she served as prosecutor for Cuyahoga County.

Panelists will be: Deborah W. Yue, attorney with the law firm Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton & Norman and member of the Minority Outreach and Publications Committee of the Cleveland Bar Association and the Asian American Bar Association; Meena Morey Chandra, assistant regional attorney for the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights; and Timothy J. Downing, an attorney with the law firm Ulmer & Berne L.L.P., where he litigates claims of harassment, retaliation and discrimination.

For further information contact the CWRU School of Law at 368-3308, or Jennifer Burrill, president of the Women's Law Association, at jenn@cwru.edu.