Dru’s career has been devoted to the achievement of equal opportunity and access in the justice system, including as former executive director of the National Association of Women Judges and longtime executive director and general counsel of the Bar Association of San Francisco. The first woman to chair the ACLU of Northern California, Dru served as Chair of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women and as a co-founder/leader of groups including Equal Rights Advocates, California Women Lawyers, the California Minority Counsel Program, and the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. Her honors include the ABA Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award, the American Jewish Committee’s Learned Hand Award, the National Bar Association’s Wiley Branton Award, and the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association’s Allies for Justice Award.

She is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School.