aclp 2 Patti Kitching transcript

Retired Court of Appeal Justice Patti Kitching was the first in her family to go to college. She attended UCLA and was an English major, but also studied geology, botany, and political science. She was a president of her sorority, a song leader at UCLA, and even appeared in a movie. After graduating, she married someone who was going to medical school and moved to Omaha, Nebraska. She worked as a secretary and teacher while her husband was in medical school. When he went into the Navy, she moved back to California and decided to pursue a PhD in Political Science. Her husband suggested she go to law school instead, so she applied to Loyola Law School and was accepted. She had her second child while in law school and graduated in 1976.