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As a female litigator, a judge for over two decades and now a mediator, arbitrator, special master and neutral evaluator at JAMS, I look back with pride on the advances we have made, while being aware of the need for more progress. When I began law school, there were only two women on the Yale Law faculty; this number dipped to zero before I graduated in 1982. I had the great honor of clerking for the first woman judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Marilyn Hall Patel, who would later become the first female chief judge of the district, but it would be years before another woman joined her on what is now a court with many female and diverse judges. Meanwhile, the first woman joined JAMS the same year I graduated, a few years after it was founded. About a century before that, Clara Foltz became the first woman to join the bar in California. We all owe a debt of gratitude to t
Governor Issues Proclamation Declaring Fred Korematsu Day
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Fred Korematsu received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton in 1998.
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday issued the following proclamation declaring Jan. 30, 2021, as Fred Korematsu Day in the State of California:
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Fred Korematsu did not set out to become a civil rights hero, but his bold decision at the age of 23 to challenge the policy of Japanese internment forever altered the course of history. This year, as we commemorate the 102nd anniversary of his birth, we reflect with gratitude on his brave crusade for civil rights.
An Oakland-born welder, Korematsu refused to abide by Executive Order 9066, the federal government’s demand that Japanese Americans report to incarceration camps. Korematsu’s act of protest led to his arrest and conviction, which he fought all the way to the Supreme Court. The court ultimately ruled against him, arguing that the incarceration of Ja
California Governor Gavin Newsom Issues Proclamation Declaring Saturday, January 30, 2021 as Fred Korematsu Day Published: Saturday, 30 January 2021 05:54
January 30, 2021 - SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday issued a proclamation declaring Saturday, January 30, 2021, as Fred Korematsu Day in the State of California.
PROCLAMATION
Fred Korematsu did not set out to become a civil rights hero, but his bold decision at the age of 23 to challenge the policy of Japanese internment forever altered the course of history. This year, as we commemorate the 102nd anniversary of his birth, we reflect with gratitude on his brave crusade for civil rights.
An Oakland-born welder, Korematsu refused to abide by Executive Order 9066, the federal government’s demand that Japanese Americans report to incarceration camps. Korematsu’s act of protest led to his arrest and conviction, which he fought all the way to the Supreme Court. The Court ultimately ruled against him, arguing