Ruth C. Burg

Ruth C. Burg, BS ’45 JD ’50

Ruth C. Burg, BS ’45, JD ’50, is a woman of many firsts.  Burg graduated number one in her Law School class—the first woman ever to do so.  She was the first woman to clerk at the Tax Court of the United States, the first appointed an administrative judge at the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, and the first to chair the American Bar Association’s Public Contracts Law Section.

Throughout her illustrious career, she has never forgotten her alma mater, giving generously to GW Law over the years.  Burg has now given a boost to the Law School’s government procurement law program by assigning GW Law as the beneficiary of her SEP/IRA.  The reason, in addition to myriad tax advantages, is simple:  “GW was very good to me, so I always thought that I’d like to be as generous as I possibly could to the University.”