The Peck School of the Arts and UWM Libraries Special Collections will present a public talk by prominent legal analyst and former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks.
The event will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 24 followed by the opening reception for the exhibition “Jewelry Speaks: The Voice of the Jill Wine-Banks Pin Collection.” This unique event is free and open to the public.
Read MoreJill Wine-Banks is a distinguished attorney, former Watergate prosecutor, General Counsel for the Army during the Carter Administration, MSNBC Legal Analyst, podcast host, and a specific kind of jewelry collector. Jill uses the pin as a messaging device to convey ideas, make statements, and construct narratives. This is an exhibition and archiving project featuring pins mined from her personal collection accumulated over a lifetime of work in the political and legal landscape in the US.
Read MoreIn 1973, when MSNBC legal analyst Jill Wine-Banks went by the name Jill Wine Volner, she was an assistant special Watergate prosecutor working for Leon Jaworski, who was investigating a rat's nest of criminal shenanigans emanating from Richard Nixon's White House.
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