Lone Woman on Committee Feels Pull of Further Duty in Roberts Hearings

By DEAN E. MURPHY
Published: August 26, 2005

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 - It was the sight of Anita F. Hill being brusquely questioned by an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee about her sexual harassment charges against Clarence Thomas, then a United States Supreme Court nominee, that helped propel Dianne Feinstein into the Senate in 1992.