Shirley Hufstedler--a giant in the legal profession and of her generation--passed away this morning. Highlights
of her incredible life:
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She was one of the first ever women to graduate from Stanford law school, and was
top of her class in 1949 and was a founder of the Stanford Law Review (see here).
·
She began in private
practice in Los Angeles in 1950. Eleven years later, she was appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, a position to which she was
elected in 1962.
·
She was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 1966 (to Div. 5, see here), and two years later
was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to the Ninth Circuit.
·
In
1979, she was appointed by President Jimmy Carter (index here) as the first Secretary of Education (obit here).
·
In
1981, she returned to private practice at the Hufstedler firm and together
with her husband and other Hufstedler firm colleagues, joined Morrison &
Foerster 20 years ago where she had a thriving appellate practice.
Oral histories are available here:
http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/directories/women_trailblazers/hufstedler_interview_5.authcheckdam.pdf
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