1939
Born in Trenton, New Jersey to Harold Brookman and Marjorie Simonson Girth.
1959
Receives a Bachelor of Arts from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
1962
Receives a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard University.
1965
Becomes a research associate at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
1971
Becomes an associate professor of the State University of New York Law School at Buffalo.
1971
Co-authors the Brookings book “Bankruptcy: Problem, Process, Reform” with David T. Stanley.
1972
Receives the Centennial Award for Professional Achievement from the Alumnae Association of Mount Holyoke College.
1976
Authors the book, “Poor People’s Lawyers (An Exposition-University Book).”
1979
Serves as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia Law School.
1981
Authors the book, “Bankruptcy Options for the Consumer Debtor.”
1991
Becomes a visiting Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute professor of Emory University Law School.
1992
Becomes a full professor and dean of Georgia State University College of Law.
1993
Becomes a member of the Georgia Supreme Court’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Court System.
1996
Becomes a member of the committee on standards of the profession of the State Bar of Georgia.
1996
Serves as a visiting Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute scholar of Emory University School of Law.
1997
Elected to membership in the American Law Institute.
2003
Serves as a visiting professor and scholar at Warsaw University’s Law School in Warsaw, Poland.
2004
Becomes a member of the Commission on Access and Fairness in the Courts of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
2007
Serves as audit committee chair of the Law School Admission Council.
2015
Receives the Distinguished Service and Lifetime Achievement Award in Bankruptcy Law from Emory University School of Law.