Margaret M. Morrow

Margaret Mary Morrow is a United States federal judge, serving on the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

She was born in Columbus, Nebraska (born 1950). She received an A.B. cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1971. She received a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1974.

Legal career

Morrow practiced law in Los Angeles, California from 1974 to 1998. She was counsel of record in several precedent-setting cases involving employment law, bad faith, insurance coverage and arbitration. In these years representing clients in civil law and criminal law, she represented a wide range of corporate and business involvements during both trial and appellate matters.

From 1974 to 1987, she practiced with the law firm known as Kadison, Pfaelzer, Woodard, Quinn & Rossi.

In 1987, she and others formed the law firm of Quinn, Kully and Morrow, that ultimately merged with the international law firm offices of Arnold & Porter in 1996.
While an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Arnold & Porter, she specialized in Appellate Court litigation.

In 1988 she served as President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. She was elected President of the State Bar of California, then served as its first woman President during 1993-94.

Judicial career

Morrow was nominated to the Central District of California bench by President Bill Clinton on January 7, 1997, to a seat vacated by Richard A. Gadbois, Jr.. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 11, 1998, and received her commission on February 24, 1998.

Significant decisions

• Dr. Sam Chachoua vs. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center http://books.google.com/books?id=e9smPCEn2xIC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=margaret+m+morrow&source=bl&ots=dmC97A73ps&sig=ObRpXAoNyCx2b7tYZIdTzdtgJRM&hl=en&ei=RMkISvHvJKHytAO6y5zlCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=16#PPA169,M1
• Vidal Sasson vs. Procter & Gamble Co http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3374/is_11_26/ai_n6207416
• Martin D Fern vs. Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. http://news.justia.com/cases/featured/california/cacdce/2:2007cv05426/394880
• Valueclick Inc vs. Revenue Science Inc. http://news.justia.com/cases/featured/california/cacdce/2:2007cv02052/385691
• United States Department of Justice vs. Reed Slatkin-Daniel W. Jacobs etal. http://www.slatkinfraud.com/index.php
• Marilyn Monroe LLC (MMLLC) and CMG Worldwide Inc. (CMG) vs. Milton H. Greene and Tom Kelley Studios http://www.licensemag.com/licensemag/Brands/Marilyn-Monroe-Case-Sets-Precedent-for-Celeb-Publi/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/506398

Achievements

Margaret M. Morrow is a past President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, also serving among the Barristers Section, past President of the State Bar of California, and has served on the boards of numerous professional associations, including the Association of Business Trial Lawyers and the Constitutional Rights Foundation. She is a past officer of the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates and Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants; and has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Public Counsel, a member of the Board of Councilors of the University of Southern California Law Center, a member of the advisory board of the Hariett Buhai Center for Family Law, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Inner City Law Center. She was a member of the Commission to Draft an Ethics Code for Los Angeles City Government and the Public Commission on Los Angeles County Government in 1989-90.

She has received numerous awards, including the Bernard E. Witkin Amicus Curiae Award from the Judicial Council of California; the Shattuck-Price Award from the Los Angeles County Bar Association; the Ernestine Stahlhut Award from the Women Lawyers’ Association of Los Angeles, and the Maynard Toll Award from the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.

Currently she is a member of the Bryn Mawr College Board of Trustees.

References

Margaret Morrow was editorialized in the Los Angeles Times. ^{[1] [2]}

1. ^ http://articles.latimes.com/1997/nov/03/local/me-49743
2. ^ http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/margaret-morrow

External links

• Margaret M. Morrow at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
• President of Los Angeles County Bar Association
• First woman president of the The California State Bar Association recognition at Cal Bar 75th Anniversary Ceremonial
• Honored during Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center Rededication Ceremonial
• C-SPAN
• CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE
• CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE
• CAALA
• CAALA

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Name	Morrow, Margaret M.
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Short description	United States federal judge
Date of birth	1950
Place of birth	Columbus, Nebraska
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