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Robert Dossee was a justice on the California Court of Appeal from 1990 to 1998. He grew up in the Excelsior district of San Francisco and attended St. Ignatius High School and Santa Clara University. He went to USF Law School and was admitted to practice in 1961. He started his legal career as a law clerk for Judge Koelsch in the Ninth Circuit and then entered private practice with a firm in San Francisco. He then worked for the State of California for six or seven years before being appointed to the San Francisco Municipal Court in 1972 by Governor Reagan. After six years on the Municipal Court, he was elevated to the San Francisco Superior Court by Governor Jerry Brown in 1979. He had numerous assignments, including criminal and security risk cases.