Life

Early Childhood

Baby Deborah Rhode with her mother and sister.

Deborah Rhode with her sister, Christine.

Attended Yale University and Yale Law School 1970-1977

“I applied to Yale the second year that it coeducated. My mother was hoping I would go to one of the women’s colleges, but I was intrigued… When I got in, which was [really a big deal to get in], they took like two hundred women and a thousand men in the entering class."

Rhode, Deborah L. (2018). Oral History. Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program Interviews (SC0932), page 18. Department of Special Collections & University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Deborah L. Rhode Marries Ralph Cavanagh. 1976

“He also took time while we were students--and I was a terrible typist. He typed my senior thesis. He typed one of my first-year law projects at a time when he had plenty of other claims on his time. But it was important to him that I should thrive. That was the first relationship I’d had where that was the ethic on the part of the guy, and it was enough to make me realize that he was the life partner”

Rhode, Deborah L. (2018). Oral History. Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program Interviews (SC0932), page 73 Department of Special Collections & University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Graduation Day 1977

Portrait of Deborah Rhode and Ralph Cavanagh

Deborah L. Rhode at Yale's 25th Reunion. 1999.

Portraits

The photograph albums include numerous portraits that Deborah L. Rhode took over the years. This is a small representation of the portraits that she took.

Ralph Cavanagh. 1996

David Freeman Engstrom & Nora Freeman Engstrom. 2010

Benedetta Faedi. Date Unknown

Millennium 01/01/2000

Deborah Rhode and Ralph Cavanagh, circa 2010

Deborah L. Rhode with Stanton II, who inspired her to start writing the book project titled “What Dogs Deserve”.

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