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Guide to the Californians to Defeat Rose Bird, 1985-1986
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Title: Californians to Defeat Rose Bird,
Date (inclusive): 1985-1986
Box Number: 1650-1670
Collector:
Byers, Janet
Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language:
English.
Unrestricted.
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[Identification of item], Californians to Defeat Rose Bird, California State Library.
Bird, Rose Elizabeth
Californians to Defeat Rose Bird
Capitol Punishment--California
Elections--California
Grodin, Joseph R.
Judges--Election
Reynoso, Cruz
Rose Elizabeth Bird was the first woman ever to serve on the California Supreme Court.
She came to California from New York in 1959. In 1965, she received her J.D. degree from
the University of Calfiornia, Berkeley. After graduation, she was the first woman ever to
clerk for the Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court.
In 1966, she became the first woman hired as a deputy public defender in Santa Clara
County. From 1972 to 1974 she taught at Stanford Law School, where she conducted clinical
courses in criminal and consumer law. In January 1975, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr.
appointed her to be the first woman to serve as Cabinet Secretary. She served as
Secretary of the Agriculture and Services Agency until her appointment as Chief Justice
of the California Supreme Court, March 16, 1977.
In 1985 Californians to Defeat Rose Bird and other citizens' groups began a campaign to
remove Rose Bird from the Supreme Court. She lost her seat in an election held in 1986.
Clippings, press releases, notes, flyers, photographs, reports, audio and video tapes
regarding the campaign to remove Chief Justice Rose Bird from the California Supreme
Court.
Material Transferred from the Collection
- California Commission on Crime and Punishment, 1985 Report.
- Eaton, William. Courts Under Siege.
- Gughemetti, Joseph. The People vs. Rose Bird.
- Johnson, Phillip E. The Civil Cases: Four Representative Decisions of the California Supreme Court.
- Johnson, Phillip E. The Court on Trial: The California Judicial Election of 1986. (two copies)
- Medsger, Betty. Framed: The New Right Attack on Chief Justice Rose Bird and the Courts.
- Stolz, Preble. Judging Judges: The Investigation of Rose Bird and the California Supreme Court.
- Supreme Court of California. Practices and Procedures.
- Citizens: Group Pictures: City of Orange Police Dept.
- Citizens: Group Pictures: Supreme Court Justices
- Davis, Ed
- Katz, Richard
- Reynoso, Cruz
- Seitz, Amy Sue
- Charts, diagrams, tables, etc.: "You Judge Your Judges Calif. Supreme Court Report Election 1986."
- Bumper Sticker: "Bye, Bye Birdie."
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