The American College of Surgeons, self-titled “The House of Surgery,” invited Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to give the Olga M. Jonasson Memorial Lecture this past weekend at the annual ACS Clinical Congress. 

The ACS is the largest and oldest professional society representing the practice of surgery, and fellowship in the ACS is an honor and a privilege. I have been a fellow for over 30 years. 

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Dr. Olga Jonasson (1934-2006) was a pioneer in surgery. She graduated with honors from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and completed her surgical residency there. She was the 37th woman certified by the American Board of Surgery. She started the transplant program at the University of Illinois and performed the first kidney transplant in the state in 1969. In 1977, she was appointed chief of surgery at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, the first woman to hold such a position in a major medical center. She was a Fellow of the ACS, which honored her with this lecture dedicated to women in leadership roles. 

Of the 20 honorees since the first Olga M. Jonasson lecture, only one, Nina Totenberg in........

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