RobertF Kane 6017

Robert F. Kane is a retired Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, First District, Division Two. He was born in Denver in 1926 and moved to the Bay Area in 1937. His mother passed away when he was a year old, leaving his father with eight children. His father remarried, but his stepmother passed away after a short period of time. His sister and her husband, John Burke, took him in and had a big impact on him. As a sub teen and teenager, he held a variety of jobs such as being an usher in a theater, selling papers, driving a dump truck, and working on ships. He graduated from Burlingame High School in 1944 and was involved in sports and student government.