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David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many of our most crucial cases are resolved—or teed up for the Supreme Court. He has championed equal justice for his entire adult life; decided landmark environmental and voting cases; and embodied the ideal of what a great judge should be. And, he has been blind for the past 50 of his 80-plus years. His memoir, Vision, tells the story of years of denying and working around his blindness, the role it has played in his personal life, and in his professional life as one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers.
Gretchen Sisson, PhD, is a sociologist who studies abortion and adoption in the United States. She is a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and her work on adoption decision-making after abortion denial was cited in the Supreme Court’s dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. She is the author of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption.