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2025 Power List 100: Ferne P. Wolf, Silverstein Wolf

Staff Report//December 11, 2025//

Ferne P. Wolf

2025 Power List 100: Ferne P. Wolf, Silverstein Wolf

Staff Report//December 11, 2025//

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Member, St. Louis

Ferne P. Wolf is a member at Silverstein Wolf in St. Louis, specializing in employment law for 47 years. She began her career with civil rights attorney Louis Gilden, who had argued McDonnell Douglas v. Green, before joining the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as a senior trial attorney at headquarters and the St. Louis District Office.

Wolf successfully brought a landmark same-sex sexual harassment case in the early 1990s that went from the Seventh Circuit to the U.S. Supreme Court, helping establish that same-sex sexual harassment was unlawful under Title VII. She is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and serves on the board of the Illinois Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association.


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