100 Notable alumni of
University of California - Hastings College of Law
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The University of California - Hastings College of Law is 802nd in the world, 298th in North America, and 277th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of California - Hastings College of Law sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Kamala Harris
- Enrolled in the University of California - Hastings College of Law
- In 1989 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerjuristprosecutorpolitician
- Biography
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Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and incumbent vice president of the United States under President Joe Biden. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president. A member of the Democratic Party, she was previously attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021.
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Christopher Darden
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Christopher Allen Darden is an American lawyer, author, lecturer, and judicial candidate. He worked for 15 years in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, where he gained national attention as a co-prosecutor in the O. J. Simpson murder case. Darden is currently running for Judge of the Superior Court in Los Angeles County.
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Christopher Stevens
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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John Christopher Stevens was an American career diplomat and lawyer who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya from May 22, 2012, to September 11, 2012. Stevens was killed when the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked by members of Ansar al-Sharia on September 11–12, 2012.
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Willie Brown, Jr
- Occupations
- politicianpodcaster
- Biography
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Willie Lewis Brown Jr. is an American retired politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004, the first African American to hold that office.
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Jackie Speier
- Enrolled in the University of California - Hastings College of Law
- In 1976 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for California's 14th congressional district, serving in Congress from 2008 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Speier represented much of the territory that her political mentor, Leo Ryan, represented.
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Christine Pelosi
- Occupations
- political adviser
- Biography
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Christine Paule Pelosi is an American Democratic Party political strategist from California. She is the daughter of Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and businessman Paul Pelosi and sister of Alexandra Pelosi.
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George Moscone
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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George Richard Moscone was an attorney and Democratic politician who was the 37th mayor of San Francisco, California from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978. He was known as "The People's Mayor," who opened up City Hall and its commissions to reflect the diversity of San Francisco, appointing African Americans, Asian Americans, and gay people. Moscone served in the California State Senate from 1967 until becoming mayor. In the Senate, he served as majority leader. Moscone is remembered for being an advocate of civil progressivism.
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Louis Sachar
- Occupations
- children's writerwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Louis Sachar is an American young-adult mystery-comedy author. He is best known for the Wayside School series and the novel Holes.
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Edward Mezvinsky
- Occupations
- lawyerbankerpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Edward Maurice Mezvinsky is an American politician and lawyer from Iowa. He is a former U.S. Representative and felon. A Democrat, he represented Iowa's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives for two terms (1973–77).
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Dennis Holahan
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Dennis Holahan is an American attorney and former actor. He is a partner in the San Francisco office of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, California’s largest law firm, where he specializes in entertainment, media, and intellectual property cases as well as more general matters in the firm’s commercial litigation practice. Prior to joining Lewis Brisbois in 2014, Dennis maintained one of the top entertainment and business-related litigation boutiques in Los Angeles for more than 20 years.
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Gregg Jarrett
- Enrolled in the University of California - Hastings College of Law
- Graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- punditjournalistlawyer
- Biography
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Gregory Walter Jarrett is an American conservative news commentator, author and attorney. He joined Fox News in November 2002, after working at local NBC and ABC TV stations for over ten years, as well as national networks Court TV and MSNBC.
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Ed Case
- Enrolled in the University of California - Hastings College of Law
- In 1981 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Edward Espenett Case is an American lawyer and Democratic politician. Since 2019, he has served as the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district, which covers the urban core of Honolulu. He represented the 2nd district, which covers the rest of the state, from 2002 to 2007.
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Thomas Mesereau
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Arthur Mesereau Jr. is an American attorney known for defending Michael Jackson in his 2005 child molestation trial, as well as Mike Tyson, Bill Cosby and, in 2023, Danny Masterson, a case in which Mesereau was sanctioned by the judge
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Carol Corrigan
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Carol Ann Corrigan is an associate justice of the California Supreme Court.
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Guillermo Söhnlein
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Guillermo Söhnlein is an Argentine-American businessman, best known as the co-founder of deep-sea exploration company OceanGate. Söhnlein left the company in 2013, retaining a minority stake.
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Gerald Posner
- Occupations
- journalistlawyerbiographer
- Biography
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Gerald Leo Posner is an American investigative journalist and author of thirteen books, including Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, which explores the John F. Kennedy assassination, and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998), about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. A plagiarism scandal involving articles that Posner wrote for The Daily Beast and his book Miami Babylon arose in 2010.
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Ethan Berkowitz
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ethan Avram Berkowitz is an American attorney, businessman, and politician from Alaska. From 1997 to 2007 he was the Alaska State Representative for District 26, serving as the Democratic Party Minority Leader from 1999 to 2007. He was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 2006, for Alaska's at-large congressional district in 2008, and for governor in 2010. He was elected mayor of Anchorage in 2015, and reelected in 2018. Berkowitz resigned as mayor of Anchorage in October 2020 after admitting to being in a "consensual, inappropriate messaging relationship" with a reporter.
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Terence Hallinan
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Terence Hallinan was an American attorney and politician from San Francisco, California. He was the second of six sons born to Progressive Party presidential candidate Vincent Hallinan and his wife, Vivian (Moore) Hallinan. Hallinan was educated at the London School of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He practiced privately in San Francisco.
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Jeff Adachi
- Occupations
- film directorlawyer
- Biography
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Jeffrey Gordon Adachi was an American attorney, pension reform advocate, and politician who served as the Public Defender of San Francisco from 2003 to 2019.
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Todd Spitzer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Todd Spitzer is an American attorney and politician serving as the district attorney of Orange County, California. Spitzer successfully ran for Orange County district attorney in 2018 against incumbent Tony Rackauckas. Spitzer had previously served as a deputy district attorney from 1990 to 1996 and, under Rackauckas, as assistant district attorney from 2008 to 2010.
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Robert Matsui
- Enrolled in the University of California - Hastings College of Law
- In 1966 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Takeo Matsui was an American politician from the state of California. Matsui was a member of the Democratic Party and served in the U.S. House of Representatives as the congressman for California's 5th congressional district from 1979 until his death at the end of his 13th term.
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Ann Veneman
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ann Margaret Veneman is an American attorney who served as the fifth executive director of UNICEF from 2005 to 2010. She previously served as the 27th United States secretary of agriculture from 2001 to 2005. Veneman served for the entire first term of President George W. Bush, and she left to take the UNICEF position. Appointed by the U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on January 18, 2005, she took over the post on May 1, 2005. A lawyer, Veneman has practiced law in Washington, DC and California, including being a deputy public defender. She has also served in other high-level positions in both the state and the federal government of the United States, including being appointed secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, serving from 1995 to 1999, as well as United States deputy secretary of agriculture, serving from 1991 to 1993. Throughout her public career, Veneman was the first woman to serve in a number of positions, including secretary of agriculture, deputy secretary of agriculture, and California's secretary of food and agriculture. She was also just the second woman to lead UNICEF, following her predecessor, Carol Bellamy.
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Richard Bryan
- Enrolled in the University of California - Hastings College of Law
- In 1963 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Richard Hudson Bryan is a retired American politician and attorney who served as the 25th Governor of Nevada from 1983 to 1989 and as a United States Senator representing Nevada from 1989 until 2001. A Democrat, Bryan previously served as the state's attorney general and a member of the State Senate.
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Robert Hertzberg
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Myles Hertzberg is an American politician who previously served in the California State Senate. A Democrat he represented the 18th Senate District, which includes parts of the San Fernando Valley.
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Clair Engle
- Enrolled in the University of California - Hastings College of Law
- In 1933 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Clair Engle was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from California from 1959 until his death in 1964. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best remembered for participating in the vote breaking the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the U.S. Senate while partially paralyzed and unable to speak, shortly before his death from a brain tumor. Engle previously served in the California State Senate from January to August 1943 and U.S. House of Representatives from August 1943 until January 1959.
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Ilya Kaminsky
- Occupations
- literary criticpoettranslatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ilya Kaminsky is a USSR-born, Ukrainian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He is best known for his poetry collections Dancing in Odesa and Deaf Republic, which have earned him several awards.
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Donald P. Wagner
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Donald P. Wagner is an American politician, currently serving as a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors for the 3rd district and chair. He previously served as mayor of Irvine, California and as a Republican member of the California State Assembly, representing the 68th district, which includes portions of Orange County. In 2019, Wagner won a seat as a nonpartisan representative on the Orange County Board of Supervisors, representing District 3.
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Katrina Swett
- Occupations
- talk show hostpolitician
- Biography
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Yvonne Katrina Swett is the President of the Lantos Foundation. She is also an American educator and the former chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2012 to 2013, and then in 2014 to 2015. She ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic candidate for Congress in New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district during the 2002 United States midterm elections.
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James M. Cole
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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James Michael Cole is an American attorney who served as United States Deputy Attorney General from December 29, 2010 to January 8, 2015. He was first installed as Deputy Attorney General following a recess appointment by President Barack Obama on December 29, 2010. He then was confirmed by the United States Senate in a 55–42 vote on June 28, 2011.
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Roger Hedgecock
- Occupations
- politicianradio personality
- Biography
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Roger Allan Hedgecock is an American politician and conservative talk radio host, who served as 30th mayor of San Diego between May 1983 and December 1985. His show is syndicated by Radio America.
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Scott Cutler
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- international forum participantbusinessperson
- Biography
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Scott Cutler is an American technology executive and is currently CEO of StockX. Formerly the executive vice president and head of global listings at the New York Stock Exchange, he has been an executive at eBay since April 2015. In August 2017, Cutler was promoted to Senior Vice President, Americas, at eBay following his stint as President of StubHub, an eBay subsidiary.
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Franklin Knight Lane
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Franklin Knight Lane was an American progressive politician from California. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1913 to 1920. He also served as a commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of California in 1902, losing a narrow race in what was then a heavily Republican state.
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Roberta Achtenberg
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Roberta Achtenberg is an American attorney and civil rights advocate who served as a commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She was previously assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, becoming the first openly lesbian or gay public official in the United States whose appointment to a federal position was confirmed by the United States Senate. This confirmation hearing garnered a lot of publicity, opposition, and support.
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Tom Umberg
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas John Umberg is an American politician who serves in the California State Senate. A Democrat, he represents the 34th district, which encompasses parts of northern Orange County and a small portion of Long Beach. Previously, he served in the California State Assembly, representing the 69th District. He is a partner at Umberg Zipser LLP in Orange County.
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Clara Shortridge Foltz
- Occupations
- suffragettelawyer
- Biography
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Clara Shortridge Foltz was an American lawyer, the first female lawyer on the West Coast, and the pioneer of the idea of the public defender. The Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles was renamed after her in 2002, and is now known as the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center.
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Kevin Shelley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kevin Francis Shelley is an American politician, who was the 28th California Secretary of State from January 6, 2003, until his resignation on March 4, 2005.
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Marvin R. Baxter
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Marvin Ray Baxter is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California who served from January 1991 to January 5, 2015.
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Edward J. Davila
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Edward John Davila is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He was previously a state court judge on the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 2001 to 2011.
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John S. Herrington
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Stewart Herrington is an American Republican politician and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Energy under Ronald Reagan during his second term.
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Robert List
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Frank "Bob" List is an American attorney and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 24th Governor of Nevada from 1979 to 1983, as Nevada Attorney General from 1971 to 1979, and as Carson City District Attorney from 1967 to 1971. Currently List practices law in Las Vegas with the law firm Kolesar & Leatham, Chtd. He was the last Governor to serve from outside Clark County until Jim Gibbons' election. After his term ended, he became a supporter of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. List was defeated for re-election in 1982 by Nevada Attorney General Richard Bryan.
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Abe Ruef
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Abraham Ruef was an American lawyer and politician. He gained notoriety as the corrupt political boss behind the administration of Mayor Eugene Schmitz of San Francisco during the period before and after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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Mark Keam
- Occupations
- politicianbusiness executivelawyer
- Biography
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Mark Lee Keam is a Korean American lawyer. He is a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates in the United States. A Democrat, Keam represented the 35th District, which encompassed a portion of Fairfax County, including the town of Vienna, Virginia, where he resides. He resigned his seat on September 6, 2022, to take a position in the Biden administration.
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Richard Thalheimer
- Occupations
- entrepreneurlawyer
- Biography
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Richard Thalheimer is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder and former CEO of the US-based consumer brand, The Sharper Image. He established The Sharper Image in 1977, after taking an interest in watches. The early watch designs were inspired by a $69 watch that he owned and advertised his watch range in Runner's World magazine. The success of the watch advertisement led to the inaugural distribution of The Sharper Image catalog in 1979. Thalheimer took his company Public company in 1987 on the Nasdaq exchange.
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Frank McGlynn, Sr
- Occupations
- film actorfilm directorstage actor
- Biography
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Frank McGlynn Sr. was an American stage and screen actor who, in a career that spanned more than half a century, is best known for his convincing impersonations and performances as Abraham Lincoln in both plays and films.
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James David Santini
- Occupations
- lawyerjustice of the peacepoliticianjudge
- Biography
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James David Santini was an American attorney, politician and lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for Nevada's at-large congressional district from 1975 to 1983. He was a member of the Democratic Party until 1986, when he joined the Republican Party.
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Lionel Wilson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lionel Joseph Wilson was an American political figure and a member of the Democratic Party. He was the first black mayor of Oakland, California, serving three terms as mayor of Oakland from 1977 until 1991.
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Ann M. Ravel
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ann Miller Ravel is an American attorney who was a Democratic Commissioner on the Federal Election Commission (FEC), an independent regulatory agency created by Congress to administer and enforce campaign finance law.
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Dorit Rubinstein Reiss
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- jurist
- Biography
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Dorit Rubinstein Reiss is a Professor of Law and the James Edgar Hervey '50 Chair of Litigation at UC Hastings College of Law. She has also worked for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israeli Ministry of Justice's Department of Public Law.
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James Francis Smith
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianjudgemilitary officer
- Biography
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James Francis Smith was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, Governor-General of the Philippines and an associate judge of the United States Court of Customs Appeals.
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Bob Crowell
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerattorney at law
- Biography
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Robert Lamson Crowell was an American attorney and politician who served as the mayor of Carson City, Nevada, from 2009 to 2020. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
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Sean Faircloth
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sean Faircloth is an American writer and politician from Maine, he served as the State Senator for Bangor, Maine, as Mayor until November 2016 and as of 2017 he is serving as a Bangor City Councilor. He is also an attorney and five-term state legislator. While in the legislature, Faircloth was appointed to the Judiciary and Appropriations Committees. In his final term, Faircloth was elected Majority Whip. Faircloth's first book published by Pitchstone Press, Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All - and What We Can Do About It was released in February 2012. His second book, The Enchanted Globe, a fantasy adventure story that teaches geography, was published in 2016.
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Troy L. Nunley
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Troy Lynne Nunley is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.
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Leo D. Hermle
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Leo David "Dutch" Hermle was a highly decorated officer in the United States Marine Corps with the rank of lieutenant general. He was a recipient of Army and Navy second highest decorations, Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross, which he earned during his service in both World Wars.
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Harold S. Sawyer
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Harold Samuel Sawyer was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sawyer represented Michigan's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1985.
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Norman D. Shumway
- Occupations
- priestpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Norman David Shumway was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1991.
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Lawrence Joseph O'Neill
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Lawrence Joseph O'Neill is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.
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John Hans Krebs
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Hans Krebs was an Israeli-American politician and attorney who served as a U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district from 1975 to 1979.
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Otto Lee
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Otto Oswald Lee is a Hong Kong-born American politician, attorney, and military veteran who was a Sunnyvale, California city council member from 2003 to 2011, before which he was on the Planning Commission, which he chaired from 2000 to 2001. From 2005 to 2006 he was vice mayor, and from 2006 to 2007 he was the 57th mayor of Sunnyvale. He is a patent attorney, and a co-founder and partner of the Intellectual Property Law Group LLP.
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Philip Kan Gotanda
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Philip Kan Gotanda is an American playwright and filmmaker and a third generation Japanese American. Much of his work deals with Asian American issues and experiences.
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McGregor W. Scott
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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McGregor William "Greg" Scott is an American lawyer and partner at the King & Spalding law firm. He served as the United States attorney for the Eastern District of California from 2017 to 2021. He was sworn in as a court-appointed U.S. attorney on December 29, 2017, after previously serving in the position from 2003 to 2009 during the George W. Bush Administration. Prior to assuming his current role, Scott was a partner in the Sacramento office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where his practice focused on white collar criminal defense and corporate investigations. In 2008, he retired from the United States Army Reserve as a lieutenant colonel after 23 years of service.
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Ronald B. Leighton
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Ronald Bruce Leighton is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
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William E. Dannemeyer
- Occupations
- journalistlawyerpoliticianjudge
- Biography
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William Edwin Dannemeyer was a conservative American politician, activist, and author, known for his opposition to LGBT rights. He served as U.S. Representative from the 39th Congressional District of California from 1979 to 1993, during which time he, along with friend and fellow Republican U.S. Rep. Robert K. Dornan, came to personify Orange County conservatism.
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Jasmin Darznik
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jasmin Darznik is the New York Times bestselling author of three books, The Bohemians, Song of a Captive Bird, a novel inspired by the life of Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran's notorious woman poet, and The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life, which became a New York Times bestseller. A New York Times Book Review "Editors' Choice" and a Los Angeles Times bestseller, Song of a Captive Bird was praised by The New York Times as a "complex and beautiful rendering of vanished country and its scattered people; a reminder of the power and purpose of art; and an ode to female creativity under a patriarchy that repeatedly tries to snuff it out." The Bohemians was selected by Oprah Daily as one of the best historical novels of 2021. Darznik's books have been published in seventeen countries.
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Alberto Torrico
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Alberto Torrico was elected to the California State Assembly in 2004. He served for six years, including two years as Majority Leader.
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Chip Pashayan
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Charles Sahag "Chip" Pashayan Jr. is an American lawyer and politician from California. He served as a Republican Congressman from the Fresno area in California's Central Valley from 1979 to 1991.
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Ancer L. Haggerty
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Ancer Lee Haggerty is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. At the time of his nomination to the federal bench by President Clinton in 1993, he was serving as an Oregon circuit court judge.
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Timothy Tau
- Occupations
- novelistfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Timothy Tau is a Taiwanese-American writer, engineer, attorney, law professor and filmmaker. Tau won the 2011 Hyphen Asian American Writers' Workshop Short Story Contest for his short story, "The Understudy", which was published in the Winter 2011 issue of Hyphen magazine, Issue No. 24, the "Survival Issue." Tau also won Second Prize in the 2010 Playboy College Fiction Contest for his short story, "Land of Origin" (see the October 2010 issue of Playboy magazine). He has also directed a number of short films and music videos that have screened at various film festivals worldwide and on YouTube.
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Oliver Jesse Carter
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Oliver Jesse Carter was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Patrick M. Martin
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Patrick Minor Martin was an American lawyer and World War II veteran who served one term as a U.S. Representative from California from 1963 to 1965.
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Laura de Force Gordon
- Occupations
- suffragettelawyer
- Biography
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Laura de Force Gordon was a California lawyer, newspaper publisher, and a prominent suffragette. She was the first woman to run a daily newspaper in the United States (the Stockton Daily Leader, 1874), and the second female lawyer admitted to practice in California.
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Dick Ackerman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Richard Charles Ackerman is an American Republican politician, who was a California State Senator for the 33rd District, representing inland Orange County, from 2000 to 2008.
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Terry Francois
- Years
- 1921-1989 (aged 68)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Terry A. Francois was an African American attorney, civil rights activist, and politician. He served as the San Francisco chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and became the first African American to serve on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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Allan O. Hunter
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Allan Oakley Hunter was an American lawyer and politician. Hunter, a Republican, served as the United States representative for California's 9th congressional district from 1951 to 1953 and for California's 12th congressional district from 1953 to 1955.
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William Raggio
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Raggio was an American politician and a former Republican member of the Nevada Senate. He represented Washoe County's 3rd district from 1972 until his retirement in 2011. He is the longest-serving member in the history of the State Senate.
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Mary Neumayr
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Mary Bridget Neumayr is an American government official, who served as the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality from 2019 to 2021. She was appointed to the position by President Donald Trump in January 2019 and confirmed by the United States Senate.
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Charles Stetson Wheeler
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Charles Stetson Wheeler was an American attorney who served as a Regent of the University of California, and he was a member of the Committee of Fifty working to maintain order after the devastating fire following the earthquake of 1906 in San Francisco. Wheeler was active in Republican Party politics.
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Steve Phillips
- Biography
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Steve Phillips is a New York Times bestselling author and political expert. He is the host of "Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips," a color-conscious political podcast, and founder of Democracy in Color, a multimedia platform on race and politics. Phillips is also a regular columnist for The Nation and The Guardian, and has published opinion pieces in The New York Times. He has appeared on multiple national radio and television networks including CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and C-SPAN. Phillips currently splits his time between San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
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Stuart Hanlon
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Stuart Hanlon is an attorney based in San Francisco, California who represented San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, Geronimo Pratt and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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Donna Levin
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Donna Levin is a San Francisco-based author, editor and writing teacher. She has published the novels Extraordinary Means (Arbor House, 1987), California Street (Simon and Schuster, 1990), There’s More Than One Way Home (Chickadee Prince Books, 2017) and He Could Be Another Bill Gates (Chickadee Prince Books, 2018).
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Cynthia Ann Bashant
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Cynthia Ann Bashant is a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and former judge of the San Diego County Superior Court.
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John Ordway
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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John Malcolm Ordway is an American retired diplomat who was a Senior Foreign Service officer in the United States Foreign Service until 2008. Prior to his retirement, he served as the United States Ambassador to Kazakhstan from September 17, 2004 to September 15, 2008, and as the United States Ambassador to Armenia from November 2001 to July 2004.
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Abby Ginzberg
- Occupations
- film producerfilm director
- Biography
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Abby Ginzberg is an independent documentary film director and producer and founder of Ginzberg Productions. For the past 30 years, Ginzberg has been creating films that tackle discrimination and the legal profession.
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Melvin T. Brunetti
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Melvin Theodore Brunetti was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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William Edward Colby
- Occupations
- conservationistlawyer
- Biography
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William Edward Colby was an American lawyer, conservationist, and the first Secretary of the Sierra Club.
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Dan Berkovitz
- Biography
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Dan Michael Berkovitz was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as a commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on April 24, 2018. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on August 28, 2018 and sworn into office on September 7, 2018 for a five-year term expiring on April 13, 2023.
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James S. Hutchinson
- Occupations
- mountaineerlawyerexplorer
- Biography
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James Sather Hutchinson was a lawyer in San Francisco, California, a mountaineer and an environmentalist. He was most noted for being an explorer of the Sierra Nevada.
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Ian Wallach
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Ian Wallach is an American lawyer and founding partner of the Law Offices of Ian Wallach, P.C. He is a legal news commentator who has appeared on regional, national, and international television and radio shows speaking on current legal issues.
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Earl Ben Gilliam
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Earl Ben Gilliam was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
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Howard J. Green
- Occupations
- film producerjournalistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Howard J. Green was an American screenwriter who worked in film and television. He was the first president of the Screen Writers Guild and a founder of the subsequent Writers Guild of America, West.
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Charles Warren
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Charles Hugh Warren was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served in the California State Assembly from 1963 to 1977 and held a Cabinet-level position as chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) under U.S. President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1979.
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Edwin Alexander Forbes
- Years
- 1860-1915 (aged 55)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Edwin Alexander Forbes, who served as the Adjutant General of California from 4 January 1911 to 18 June 1915, is known as the Father of the California Cadet Corps.
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Patricia Kernighan
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Patricia Kernighan, a politician and a lawyer, was a District 2 city council member in Oakland, California until 2014, noted for her advocacy of instant run-off voting in city elections.
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William T. Jeter
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Thomas Jeter was an American Democratic politician. he served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of California.
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Andrew Phillips
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Andrew Phillips is a deaf lawyer, and an advocate for equal access.
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Frank M. Angellotti
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Frank Marion Angellotti, was an American attorney who served as the 17th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court from January 5, 1915 to November 1921, and as an associate justice from December 11, 1902, to January 4, 1915.
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Lewis F. Byington
- Years
- 1868-1943 (aged 75)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Lewis Francis Byington was an American lawyer, author, and Democratic politician who served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (1898–1900) and as District Attorney of San Francisco (1900–1905).
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Jane Brunner
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jane Brunner is a former member of the Oakland City Council, a position she held from 1996 to 2013. Brunner is a former president of the council, a post she held for two years. She was Chair of the Community and Economic Development Committee.
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Terry Dempsey
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Terence M. Dempsey was an American politician who was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives who represented the old House districts 23A and 28B, which included all or portions of Brown, Cottonwood, Nicollet and Redwood counties in the south central part of the state. A Republican, he was an attorney and partner in the New Ulm law firm of Somsen, Dempsey and Schade. Later, he served as a Minnesota district court judge. His brother Jerry Dempsey also served in the Minnesota Legislature.
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Angel G. Luévano
- Occupations
- trade unionist
- Biography
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Ángel Godinez Luévano is an American labor leader and activist who was the principal litigant in the class action suit Luévano v. Campbell. He is also a graduate of the Hastings College of the Law.
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William P. Lawlor
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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William Patrick Lawlor was an associate justice of the California Supreme Court from January 3, 1915, to July 25, 1926.
