Shirley Hufstedler
Shirley Mount Hufstedler (* 24. August 1925 in Denver , Colorado ; † the 30th March 2016 in Glendale , California ) was an American lawyer and politician who under President Jimmy Carter as Education Minister of the Cabinet belonged.
Shirley Hufstedler graduated from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1945 ; In 1949 she received her Bachelor of Laws from Stanford University . She then began a successful legal career. After initially working as a freelance attorney in Los Angeles from 1950 , she served as special advisor to the Attorney General of California in a case relating to the Colorado River before the Supreme Court between 1960 and 1961 . In 1961 she became a judge in the Superior Court of Los Angeles Countycalled; the following year he was officially elected to this office.
In 1966, Shirley Hufstedler was appointed Associate Judge at the California Court of Appeal before US President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed her as a judge at the Federal Court of Appeals for the ninth district in 1968 . She held this post for eleven years until President Carter made her the first director of the newly created Department of Education in 1979. Previously, education was part of the Ministry of Health, Education and Welfare . In 1981, after Carter's defeat in the presidential election by Ronald Reagan , she left the cabinet and thus from politics.
As a result, Shirley Hufstedler worked as a lawyer and partner in the law firm Hufstedler & Kaus ; at the same time, she taught law at the University of California , the University of Iowa and the University of Vermont . She also held a professorship at Stanford in 1982 and was visiting professor at St Catherine's College , Oxford in 1996 . She has received 20 honorary doctorates from American universities and has served on the governing bodies of various foundations, universities and other institutions. In 1989 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Web links
- Shirley Hufstedler at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hufstedler, Shirley |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hufstedler, Shirley Mount (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Denver , Colorado , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 2016 |
| Place of death | Glendale , California , United States |