BARBARA LYNN BADER was born to parents Fred A. and Patricia W. Bader in 1939. Fred Bader worked as a Postal Clerk. Barbara’s uncle (and one of her role models) worked as a lawyer. Barbara’s maternal grandmother also played a profound role in her life. She managed a dairy farm and actively participated in Democratic politics. Barbara’s grandmother encouraged her to work hard and do what she wanted to do. While attending Puyallup High School in Washington state, Barbara knew she wanted to become a lawyer because it felt like a natural fit to her.[1]Licenses Issued, Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California), March 25, 1966, at 37. U.S. Census Bureau, Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940: Ward 4, Tacoma, Tacoma Election Precinct, Pierce, … Continue reading Her classmates nicknamed her “Bader the Debater”.[2]Litigation Webmaster SBOT, Texas Legal Legends: An Interview with Barbara Aldave, accessed April 17, 2021. Shortly after her graduation in 1956, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik and the United States responded by focusing on math and science education. Barbara excelled in this area and, therefore, was awarded the National Merit scholarship to attend Stanford University. In 1960, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry.[3]Barbara Bader Aldave, “Work and Education About Information”, accessed December 7, 2020. She believed, “mathematics and science are the best preparation for the study of law because they are so ‘logical and precise.’”[4]Texas Law School names best teacher, El Paso Herald-Post (El Paso, Texas), April 24, 1976, at 7.

Barbara Bader Aldave sitting in front of other University Oregon Law School staff, 1970s
Aldave sitting among her faculty peers at the University of Oregon’s Law School. (From left to right behind Aldave, Pete Swan, Fred Merrill, Joseph Grodin, and George Dawson) | Courtesy of University of Oregon Law School: Class of 1973 – 30 Year Reunion

Bader, along with only about ten other women, entered the law school at the University of California at Berkeley. Along the way achieved election to the national honor society, the Order of the Coif. Bader graduated in 1966 with her Doctor of Jurisprudence specializing in business law, graduating in the top 1% of her class. That same year, she married Ralph Theodore Aldave (pronounced AHL-dah-vay), also a lawyer and UC Berkeley graduate.[5]Litigation Webmaster SBOT, Texas Legal Legends: An Interview with Barbara Aldave, accessed April 17, 2021. Texas Law School names best teacher, El Paso Herald-Post (El Paso, Texas), April 24, … Continue reading

After graduation, Barbara Aldave practiced law, working for Shell Development Company in Emeryville, California; Krause, Lindsay & Nahstoll in Portland, Oregon; and Johnson, Johnson & Harrange in Eugene, Oregon, but she soon felt dissatisfied.[6]UO School of Law, Barbara Aldave: A Legal Legacy, Around the O, May 12, 2013. “Barbara Aldave,” University of Oregon, School of Law Faculty and Staff, accessed December 12, 2020. Bar … Continue reading Aldave considered herself “too flappable” for private practice and “too concerned over clients’ problems”, and thought she would do better in academia.[7]Texas Law School names best teacher, El Paso Herald-Post (El Paso, Texas), April 24, 1976, at 7. In 1970, she began teaching as an assistant professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, the first woman faculty member to do so. She began teaching in her area of specialization, but she soon expanded her offerings. Although unfamiliar with the topic, Professor Aldave agreed to teach a course on Securities Regulation and read through all 12 volumes of the notable “The Fundamental of Securities Regulation” within a few months. Not atypical behavior for Aldave, colleagues often described as incredibly intelligent and well-read. While at UO, Aldave also taught courses in business associations and constitutional law. Recognizing Aldave’s hard work,  the Oregon Law chapter of Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity awarded her with Outstanding Teacher Award in 1971, 1972, and 1973.[8]“Barbara Aldave,” University of Oregon, School of Law Faculty and Staff, accessed December 12, 2020. Bar association to hear dean, New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung (New Braunfels, Texas), July 30, … Continue reading

During the 1970s and 1980s, her academic career continued at the law schools of University of California at Berkeley, University of Texas at Austin, Northwestern University, Boston College, and Cornell University where she also excelled.[9]“Barbara Aldave,” University of Oregon, School of Law Faculty and Staff, accessed December 12, 2020. Bar association to hear dean, New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung (New Braunfels, Texas), July 30, … Continue reading In 1976, at The University of Texas Law School Aldave received the annual teaching excellence award, the first woman to receive this recognition, and only after teaching at the Law School for two years.[10]“Barbara Aldave,” University of Oregon, School of Law Faculty and Staff, accessed December 12, 2020. Bar association to hear dean, New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung (New Braunfels, Texas), July 30, … Continue reading Students described Aldave’s classes as organized, lively, provocative, and “a grand intellectual adventure.”[11]Texas Law School names best teacher, El Paso Herald-Post (El Paso, Texas), April 24, 1976, at 7. She taught her subjects clearly, worked students hard, kept a sense of humor, and engaged students personably. Additionally, Aldave made a special effort to welcome and listen to her women and minority students. While teaching at UT, Aldave also researched the Supreme Court’s interpretation of federal securities law, supervised law student independent research projects, and was promoted to the admissions committee to find and recruit more people of color and non-residents.[12]Texas Law School names best teacher, El Paso Herald-Post (El Paso, Texas), April 24, 1976, at 7. Litigation Webmaster SBOT, Texas Legal Legends: An Interview with Barbara Aldave, accessed April … Continue reading

Aldave wearing red suit, sitting in front of shelves of books, with her hand under her chin
Dean Barbara Aldave | Courtesy of St. Mary’s University School of Law Papers at the Louis J. Blume Library

In 1989, James Castleberry stepped down as Dean of The School of Law at St. Mary’s University. Castleberry served for many years and University President Father John Moder charged the dean search committee to find a new dean capable of bringing change and innovation to the law school. In 1989, St. Mary’s School of Law named Barbara Bader Aldave as the first female dean of St. Mary’s School of Law and the first female law school dean in Texas history. [13]Texas Law School names best teacher, El Paso Herald-Post (El Paso, Texas), April 24, 1976, at 7. Litigation Webmaster SBOT, Texas Legal Legends: An Interview with Barbara Aldave, accessed April … Continue reading As she later said, “…I was entirely honest about the changes that I hoped to effectuate.”[14]Charles E. Cantú, An Oral History of St. Mary’s University School of Law, St. Mary’s L. J., Apr. 18, 2019, at 366-368, and footnote 183. Charles E. Cantú, Reflections on James N. … Continue reading The faculty, student body, and community in San Antonio received Aldave warmly as she set out to change a decidedly conservative law school.[15]Charles E. Cantú, An Oral History of St. Mary’s University School of Law, St. Mary’s L. J., Apr. 18, 2019, at 368-369.

Dean Aldave initiated changes even as she settled into the job. Under Castlebury’s deanship the Law School had enforced a strict dress code in place for about a decade, including a “no-shorts rule.” As one professor remembered, “When she was moving in, her husband, Raphael, was carrying a box for her from their car and they took it into the law library for storage. Raphael walked in, wearing shorts, with this box and every student in the library at the time stood up and gave him a standing ovation.”  This foreshadowed a deanship that often provoked strong feelings one way or another among the students, faculty, and alumni.[16]Charles E. Cantú, An Oral History of St. Mary’s University School of Law, St. Mary’s L. J., Apr. 18, 2019, at 357. Barbara Bader Aldave, The Reality of a Catholic Law School, Marquette Law … Continue reading

From the beginning, Aldave set out to make the law school more diverse and especially sensitive to people of color. She hired people who shared her vision and supported her ideas. In a speech she explained: “… ‘catholic’-with a small c, of course-means not only ‘very broad in sympathies, understanding, appreciation, or interest,’ but also ‘not narrow, isolative, provincial, or partisan’…[M]y colleagues and I are making progress. We are convinced that a ‘Catholic’ law school ought to be open and inclusive—open to ideas that are generated by people with varying philosophies and points of view, and inclusive of individuals who differ from each other in class, race, gender, national origin, and experience.”[17]Charles E. Cantú, An Oral History of St. Mary’s University School of Law, St. Mary’s L. J., Apr. 18, 2019, at 333 and 370. Barbara Bader Aldave, The Reality of a Catholic Law School, … Continue reading

Controversy followed as Aldave admitted more women and minorities to the school and faculty. Under her deanship, minority enrollment rose from 11 to 38 per cent.  Aldave also diversified the traditional curriculum, introducing more than fifty new courses and seminars, including Comparative Law, Environmental Law, Poverty Law, International Human Rights, Law and Philosophy, Bioethics, Racism and the Law, Capital Punishment, Family Violence, and Feminist Jurisprudence.[18]Barbara Bader Aldave, The Reality of a Catholic Law School, Marquette Law Review, Winter 1995, at 293. Scott Heller, Katherine Mangan, Christopher Shea, St. Mary’s U. Law School to Replace … Continue reading

The Dean also supported an innovative joint degree program in juris prudence and business administration, which was followed with similar degrees in economics, industrial engineering, international relations, public administration, and theology.[19]Barbara Bader Aldave, The Reality of a Catholic Law School, Marquette Law Review, Winter 1995, at 293. University to offer joint program of study, The Sequin Gazette-Enterprise (Seguin, Texas), … Continue reading Also under Aldave’s deanship, the Law School published The Scholar. Originally Aldave’s plan was to use The Scholar to showcase Hispanic scholars but eventually the publication transitioned into focusing on issues related to social justice and race.[20]Charles E. Cantú, An Oral History of St. Mary’s University School of Law, St. Mary’s L. J., Apr. 18, 2019, at 328.

Barbara Aldave sitting with student, law books open on table, 1989
Dean Aldave sitting with St. Mary’s University Law School student, Grace Kunde, 1989 | Courtesy of St. Mary’s University Public History Program/Bob Owen

Aldave also helped San Antonio’s underserved and the underrepresented by establishing clinical programs. Initially the Law School faculty was hesitant about this program, especially when Aldave acquired a former Marianist facility to build the Center for Legal and Social Justice (CLSJ) which for a time became a financial strain on the institution. However, she still pushed it forward with sheer force of will.[21]Charles E. Cantú, An Oral History of St. Mary’s University School of Law, St. Mary’s L. J., Apr. 18, 2019, at 370, 378, and 394. Scott Heller, Katherine Mangan, Christopher Shea, St. … Continue reading In response to others’ doubts, Aldave said,

“…for whom is our school named?… In the early part of the New Testament, Mary is introduced to us as an unmarried, pregnant teenager.…she is an old woman, at least by the standards of her time-a widow who looks to friends for sustenance and support…she has searched for shelter, fled from persecution, and watched the execution of her son. Somehow, I have to believe that such a woman, whom I view as a strong and courageous figure, would heartily approve of programs – instituted at the only law school bearing her name-that are designed to aid the poor and the homeless, immigrants and refugees, the young and the elderly, and inhabitants of death row.”[22]Barbara Bader Aldave, The Reality of a Catholic Law School, Marquette Law Review, Winter 1995, at 295.

Aldave established clinics for Poverty Law, Juvenile Justice, Capital Punishment, Civil Justice, Criminal Justice, Immigration, and Human Rights.  These clinicals proved to be very instrumental to the Law School’s curriculum and most graduates felt they were a “wonderful innovation”.[23]Charles E. Cantú, An Oral History of St. Mary’s University School of Law, St. Mary’s L. J., Apr. 18, 2019, at 370 and 394. Because of these clinics, the American Bar Association awarded St. Mary’s with the “Public Interest Law School of the Year” award in 1997. Aldave also established the Centre for Conciliation and Arbitration at the School of Law in the Sarita Kenedy East Law Library. The purpose of the Centre was to provide non-litigation resolutions for national and international commercial disputes while providing education opportunities for the Law School.[24]UO School of Law, Barbara Aldave: A Legal Legacy, Around the O, May 12, 2013. Gary MacEoin, Dissent simmers at St. Mary’s law school, National Catholic Reporter, February 16, … Continue reading

Barbara Aldave standing next to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sissy Farenthold, 1994
Barbara Aldave, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sissy Farenthold at St. Mary’s Institute on World Legal Problems at the University of Innsbruck, Austria (1994) | Courtesy of The University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Aldave took on additional responsibilities through community service. She served on the Board of Directors for Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., the Greater Texas Legal Foundation to support voting rights.[25]Anheuser-Busch grant helps change the quality of justice for minorities across the country, The Waco Citizen (Waco, Texas), November 30, 1990, at 6. She led a Gender Bias Task Force for the Texas Supreme Court that, among other things,  focused on  “establishing alimony for economically dependent former spouses, educating judges about sex crimes and family violence, requiring employers to adopt written sexual harassment policies and providing child-care for parties in lawsuits.”[26]Austin Report: Gender bias in the courts, The Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Texas), March 25, 1994, at 9. Aldave testified in dozens of cases involving claims by or against business corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, and nonprofit organizations.[27]“Barbara Aldave,” University of Oregon, School of Law Faculty and Staff, accessed December 12, 2020.

Predictably, all these activities and changes caused consternation and opposition among some faculty, alumni, and members of the University Board of Trustees, especially when the percentage of students passing the bar exam dropped from 85 to 70.5 per cent over the course of her tenure. This became a huge issue among the faculty who thought that well-meaning social statement policies appeared to threaten the academic standard of the Law School. In response to the low passage rate, Aldave argued that the bar exam discriminated against minorities. Aldave also ignored the Texas Attorney General’s call for universities to cease affirmative-action plans after the Hopwood v. Texas undercut these kinds of efforts. Like the two deans before her, Aldave was characterized as a “one-man” show who made decisions without sufficient consultation.[28]Scott Heller, Katherine Mangan, Christopher Shea, St. Mary’s U. Law School to Replace Controversial Dean, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov 7, 1997. Charles E. Cantú, An Oral History of … Continue reading

To accomplish her vision, Aldave surrounded herself with like-minded individuals, especially women, to help manage the law school. She also created a school with more Latino students, faculty, and administration than any other law school in the United States. Doing so brought overdue change, but at the cost of dividing the law school. The biggest criticism directed at Aldave was that she pushed change much too quickly.[29]Litigation Webmaster SBOT, Texas Legal Legends: An Interview with Barbara Aldave, accessed April 17, 2021. Charles E. Cantú, An Oral History of St. Mary’s University School of Law, St. Mary’s … Continue reading Although President Moder praised her for her changes, he also said “people who institute rapid changes provoke people and make enemies.”[30]Charles E. Cantú, An Oral History of St. Mary’s University School of Law, St. Mary’s L. J., Apr. 18, 2019, at 376-377. Scott Heller, Katherine Mangan, Christopher Shea, St. Mary’s U. Law … Continue reading When her term expired in May 1998, Moder, announced that Aldave would not be reappointed. Regarding her departure from St. Mary’s, Aldave said, “The moral of the story, I believe, is this: Those who speak truth to power lose their jobs.”[31]Scott Heller, Katherine Mangan, Christopher Shea, St. Mary’s U. Law School to Replace Controversial Dean, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov 7, 1997.

Katina Saint Marie and Aldave in front of blue building and green trees, 2012
Katina Saint Marie and Barbara Aldave, leaders of The Portia Project, 2012 | Courtesy of Oregon State Bar

Aldave returned to the University of Oregon as the Loran L. Stewart Professor of Business Law and the director of the Center for Law and Entrepreneurship, and she continued her energetic and innovative teaching career. Professor Aldave retired from teaching at Oregon Law in 2013. [32]UO School of Law, Barbara Aldave: A Legal Legacy, Around the O, May 12, 2013.

During her busy career, Aldave participated with many organizations, including the Federacion Interamericana de Abogados, the American Bar Association, Amnesty International, Bread For the World, the Gray Panthers, and the National Coalition To Abolish the Death Penalty. Many awards came her way: Annual Inspirational Award, The Women’s Advocacy Project (1989); Appreciation Award, San Antonio Black Lawyers Association (1990); Special Recognition Award, National Convention of National Lawyers Guild (1990); Outstanding Law Professor Award, St. Mary’s University Chapter of Delta Theta Phi (1990 & 1991),  the Biographical Record in “Who’s Who in American” (1986-87 & 1988-89 & 1990-91), and the Public Service Frohnmayer Award for her work with the Portia Project at UO (2002). Barbara Aldave published as well, especially regarding securities fraud and insider trading. For ten years, she served as an editorial consultant to the five-volume treatise, Texas Corporations, Law and Practice. Because of her expertise on corporate governance and fiduciary responsibilities, Aldave testified in multiple cases. When Aldave was not working, she enjoyed time with her family, foosball, piano, swimming, and reading. [33]“Barbara Aldave,” University of Oregon, School of Law Faculty and Staff, accessed December 12, 2020. UO School of Law, Barbara Aldave: A Legal Legacy, Around the O, May 12, 2013. Bar … Continue reading

Barbara Aldave was a decisive “larger than life character” and because of that, some people took issue with her, even though she was incredibly transparent about her agenda. Her faith moved her to study, practice, and teach law. Her knowledge of inequality within the law, moved her to compassion and service.[34]Charles E. Cantú, An Oral History of St. Mary’s University School of Law, St. Mary’s L. J., Apr. 18, 2019, at 378. Litigation Webmaster SBOT, Texas Legal Legends: An Interview with Barbara … Continue reading Charles E. Cantú, a subsequent dean, perhaps summed it up best when he said, “… To [Aldave’s] credit, she talked the talk and walked the walk. She is the only liberal I know who, during her college years, would go into Mexico and help inoculate children. She was really a believer, a true believer that everyone should be given a chance. No question about it, she was a force, a definite force. I cannot emphasize enough that as liberal as she was, and as much of a force as she was, she was honest. She believed what she said, and she was going to bring it on to the campus at St. Mary’s School of Law.”[35]Charles E. Cantú, An Oral History of St. Mary’s University School of Law, St. Mary’s L. J., Apr. 18, 2019, at 378.

portrait of Dean Barbara Bader Aldave
Dean Barbara Bader Aldave | Courtesy of All Press Releases

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