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Justice Margaret Grignon is a retired Associate Justice of the Second District Court of Appeal in California. She was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, but her family moved to Riverside, California when she was nine months old. She attended Catholic elementary school, Matthew Gage Junior High School, and Riverside Polytechnic High School. She graduated cum laude from UCLA with a political science major. She then decided to attend law school and graduated first in her class from Loyola Law School. She worked as a one-year law clerk for Justice Robert Thompson at the Court of Appeal, and there were four women justices on the court at the time.