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Fordham Law R eview Volume 73 | Issue 3 Article 1 2004 Deborah L. Rhodes Access to Justice: Foreword Bruce A . Green Fordham University Sc hool of Law Recommended Citation Bruce A. Green, Deborah L. Rhodes Access to Justice: Foreword, 73 Fordham L. Rev. 841 (2004). Available at : /flr/vol73/iss3/1 This Article is brought to you for ree and open access by FLA SH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Law R eview by an authorized administrator of FLA SH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact tmelnick@. COLLOQUIUM DEBORAH L. RHODES ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOREWORD Bruce A. Green* The photograph of Thurgood Marshall on the wall over my desk is not one of the well-known ones taken circa Brown v. Board of Education, when he was a civil rights leader and courtroom lawyer striving heroically to realize the promise of equal justice under law. 2 It was taken by Deborah Rhode years later when Marshall was serving as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Like Rhodes writings, her photograph is artfully composed and captures the essence of its subject. Marshall is leaning back in a chair in his chambers against a wall of Supreme Court opinions. I imagine he was in the middle of one of the humorous, but pointed, stories for which he was well- known among his clerks and colleagues -stories from his extraordinary experience that suggested both how far the nation had come and how much farther it had to go to realize its