Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university located in Stanford, California. Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford was a U.S. senator and former governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution.
Tara VanDerveer spent her days at Indiana playing basketball and watching Bob Knight's practices. Decades later, she would win more..
A Stanford professor, she pushed the legal profession to confront the ways it failed clients and to be more inclusive of women.