Napolitano saved her most powerful story for last: Clara Foltz, a single divorced mother of five children who was determined to become a lawyer. When Clara checked the qualifications for the California state bar, she met every requirement except one — she was not a white man. Rather than accept this barrier, Clara rewrote the law itself, then successfully lobbied the state legislature to pass it. Crucially, Napolitano noted, Clara didn't just want to help herself. Her Woman Lawyer's Bill opened the profession to all Californians, replacing discriminatory language with inclusive terms. Clara went on to become the first woman lawyer in California, helped create the public defender system, and taught women law students in her office. When she died in 1934, the Governor of California was one of her pallbearers. Napolitano told the diverse graduating class to look around them — the diversity they saw was Clara's legacy, eighty years later.