Next year,
Wardlaw will have sat on the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for two decades.
She was nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton in 1997, two years
after she assumed a judgeship in the Central District of California, also by
Clinton’s nomination.
Wardlaw was born in San Francisco to a staunchly
Republican Mexican-American mother and a Democratic father of Scots-Irish
descent. She was the first woman of Hispanic ancestry appointed to a federal
court of appeals.
“Life
experiences provide each of us with sentiments of right and wrong, fair and
unfair, rational and irrational, just and unjust,” Wardlaw wrote in the
article, adding that personal notions of justice should be tempered by an
honest application of existing law.
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