- Shirley Hufstedler
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name =Shirley Mount Hufstedler
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office =United States Secretary of Education
term_start =November 30 ,1979
term_end =January 20 ,1981
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president =Jimmy Carter
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successor =Terrel Bell
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birth_place =Denver, Colorado
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footnotes = |Shirley Mount Hufstedler (born
August 24 ,1925 inDenver, Colorado ) wasUnited States Secretary of Education under PresidentJimmy Carter .Hufstedler has had a distinguished career at the highest levels of legal and public service. She began in private practice in
Los Angeles in 1950. From 1960 to 1961, she served as Special Legal Consultant to theAttorney General of California in the complexColorado River litigation before theU.S. Supreme Court . In 1961, she was appointed Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, a position to which she was elected in 1962.In 1966, she was appointed Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal. President
Lyndon Johnson appointed her Judge of theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1968. She served for eleven years before President Jimmy Carter appointed her U.S. Secretary of Education.In 1981, Hufstedler returned to private life, teaching and practicing law. She was a partner in the firm Hufstedler & Kaus, now merged into
Morrison & Foerster . She is the recipient of 20 honorary doctoral degrees from American universities. She has served on boards of trustees, governing boards and visiting committees for numerous foundations, institutions, corporations and universities.Carter would later say that if he had a Supreme Court appointment, he would have nominated Hufstedler.Fact|date=April 2007
Education
Hufstedler attended the
University of New Mexico (B.B.A. 1945) andStanford Law School (LL.B. 1949).External links
* [http://www.mofo.com/attorneys/3771/summary.html Morrison & Foerster: Shirley M. Hufstedler]
* [http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=1111 Biography] from theFederal Judicial Center
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