Gordon Cologne 6012

Justice Gordon Cologne was born in 1924 in the Coachella Valley in California. He served in the Navy for two years after high school and then went to college at USC and law school at Southwestern University. After graduating from law school, he worked for the Department of Justice in the Antitrust Division. He then returned to California to practice law and was elected mayor of Indio. In 1960, he ran for the Assembly and won, serving until 1972 when he was appointed by Governor Ronald Reagan to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District. He served as an appellate justice until 1984 when he retired during the presidential term of President Ronald Reagan. Justice Cologne compares the Legislature of the 1960s to now, noting that there were no term limits in the 60s and that the lobbyists were not as influential.