Ruth Wedgwood is the daughter of labor lawyer Morris P. Glushien, former general counsel of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union who served as a World World War II cryptanalyst, and Anne Sorelle Williams, an artist. In 1982 she married her Harvard classmate, National Institutes of Health immunologist Josiah F. Wedgwood, a member of the Wedgwood pottery family.
Harvard University; Yale Law School.
She has expertise in the fields of international law, international criminal law, the law of armed conflict, and human rights law. She was the first female law clerk to renowned federal judge Henry J. Friendly on the United States. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and also served as law clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun on the United States. Supreme Court. Wedgwood received her undergraduate at Harvard where she graduated magna cum laude, and her legal education at Yale Law School, where she was executive editor of the Yale Law Journal.
In 2002, Wedgwood was elected to serve as the United States. member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. She currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Freedom House a nonpartisan non-governmental organization that promotes human rights and democracy world-wide.
