Harry Brauer 6060

Justice Harry Brauer was one of three original justices appointed to the California Appellate Court in 1984. He was born in Germany in 1926 and fled to the Philippines in 1939 to escape Hitler. During World War II, he attended Catholic school and learned English quickly. After the war, his family moved to the United States and he was accepted to the University of Chicago. He then went on to Yale Law School and eventually became an Associate Justice of the Sixth District Court of Appeal. He retired in 1989 and now lives in Arizona.