Strossen is the former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, and the first woman to hold the position.

Following Harvard and Harvard Law, Strossen worked as an attorney in Minneapolis for nine years before signing on as a professor at New York Law School. In 1991, she was appointed president of the ACLU although she continued to teach law as well. (She had to—her gig at the ACLU was an unpaid one.) She retired from the post in 2008, but continues to teach at NYU and sits on the Council on Foreign Relations. While Strossen has published hundreds of pieces in educational journals over the years, her two most well-known tomes are Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights, which was published in 1994, and Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, which she co-authored with Ira Glasser and Henry Louis Gates (among others) in 1995. [Image via Getty]