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Stephen Kane is a retired Associate Justice of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Fresno. He grew up in San Mateo, California and had a loving family. His mother, Mary Catherine Galligan -Kane, and his father, who was a retired member of the Court of Appeal First Appellate District, had a big influence on him. His father was appointed by President Reagan to be the Ambassador to Ireland. Stephen Kane is married to Brenda and they have four children. During his formal, early educational period, he attended Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, a Jesuit-run college prep school. He met lifelong friends there, including Judge Larry O'Neill. Stephen Kane's experiences and relationships with his family and friends have had a big impact on his life.

Justice George Nicholson was born in Dallas, Texas in 1941 and grew up in a large family with his father being a baker. He was taught early right and wrong and spent a lot of time in the fields running barefooted. He was close to all of his aunts and uncles and they all worked and stayed married. He married his wife three months out of high school and they have been married 58 years. He grew up playing baseball with black kids in Oakland and knew the famous George Powles who sent many players to the Major League Baseball, NBA, and Olympics. He learned to love the farm and animals and working people and had a life full of positive experiences with people of different ethnicities. He had to get good grades to be able to play baseball and his parents urged him to do good but did not micromanage his schooling or athletics. He and his friends had aspirations to be professional baseball players and they all said they would not sign unless they all signed. Two of them did sign, Carl Shelen and Jimmy McClure.

Justice Rebecca Wiseman was born in Sanger, California and grew up in Fresno. Her father had a very interesting life, having run away from home at 16 and riding a rail to California. He worked in the Central San Joaquin Valley picking grapes and driving trucks. During World War II, he was a glider pilot in the mission "A Bridge Too Far" and was captured by the Germans. Her mother was from Pennsylvania and worked for the Department of Agriculture. Rebecca attended McClain High School and Fresno State, majoring in Journalism. She wanted to be a TV broadcaster and got her first job at KOVR in Sacramento. After a bad experience at a job interview, she decided to go to law school. She went on to have a successful career as an Associate Justice of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Fresno, retiring in 2013.

Justice Richard Huffman is an Associate Justice on the Fourth Appellate District, Division 1 who was born and raised in Los Angeles. He worked various jobs as a young person, including delivering papers and working in a grocery store, and was the first person in his family to go to college. He worked his way through college and law school while also working full-time jobs. After law school, he took a job with the Attorney General's office and eventually became involved in a mob prosecution in El Centro. He later became the Chief Deputy District Attorney in San Diego, where he was responsible for hiring a number of women and minority people.

Judith McConnell was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, where her father was a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman. She was a tomboy, and she wanted to be a cowboy or cowgirl, wearing her diamond-studded holster to church. She went to Berkeley for college and law school, and when she graduated, she found it difficult to find a job as a lawyer in the private sector because of her gender. She eventually found a job in the public sector and went on to become a successful lawyer. She was inspired to become a judge after seeing Governor Jerry Brown appoint women to the bench.

Justice J. McIntyre grew up in Chicago, Illinois and attended New Trier High School in Winnetka. He was involved in football and singing in high school. His father had a lumber business and he worked there in the summers. After graduating high school, Justice McIntyre applied to three colleges: Brown, Stanford, and Cornell. He was accepted to all three and chose to attend Brown. He was already interested in a career in law and believed he was quick and good at simplifying issues. After graduating from Brown, he decided to attend Stanford Law School and drove out to California without ever having seen the school. At Stanford, he learned more about simplifying issues and how to be a successful trial lawyer. After graduating from Stanford, he became a successful trial lawyer in San Diego.

embrace the joy of learning and the importance of knowledge." I think that was the message that he was trying to send. And I think that he was a man of great character, and I think that he was a man of great integrity, and I think that he was a man of great humor. And I think that he was a man of great wisdom. And I think that he was a man of great 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 13 courage. And I think that he was a man of great love. And I think that he was a man of great faith. And I think that he was a man of great humility. And I think that he was a man of great compassion. And I think that he was a man of great kindness. And I think that he was a man of great generosity. And I think that he was a man of great humility. And I think that he was a man of great courage. And I think that he was a man of great love. And I think that he was a man of great faith. And I think that he was a man of great humility. And I think that he was a man of great

by the Mexican Mafia on a guy that was a snitch. Justice S. Kriegler : So, you were in the Special Prosecutions Unit for two years and then you went on the bench. Justice R. Boren : Yeah. Justice S. Kriegler : How did that come about? Justice R. Boren : Well, I think it was a combination of things. I think the attorney general was looking for people to put on the bench and I think I was one of the people that he was looking at. I was also looking for a change. I had been in the Attorney General’s Office for almost eight years and I was looking for a change. I was looking for something that would be more of a challenge and something that would be more interesting. And I thought that being a judge would be a good thing to do. Justice S. Kriegler : What was it like when you first went on the bench? Justice R. Boren : Well, I was a little scared. I was scared because I didn’t know what I was doing. I had been in the courtroom a lot but I had never been a judge. I had never been on the bench. I had never been in charge. So,

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.

This transcript is an interview between Arthur Gilbert and Joan Dempsey Klein, two justices of the Second Appellate District Court. Joan talks about her childhood growing up in San Jose, California, and moving around with her family due to her father's alcoholism and gambling. She talks about how her mother was trapped in a difficult marriage and how she wanted to have a different life than her mother. Joan also talks about how she worked in a defense plant during the 1940s, putting rivets on planes and installing bomb bay doors. She was motivated to get out of her situation and eventually went to college, becoming a crusader for women's rights.

Justice Frank Jackson was born in Alhambra, California and moved to the Antelope Valley when he was in the second grade. He went to college in Reno, Nevada and law school in Sacramento. He practiced law in Lancaster, California for 15-16 years before he became a judge. He was appointed by Governor Deukmejian to the Municipal Court in 1990 and then to the Superior Court in 1993. He was also a pro tem for the Court of Appeal and handled the famous case of the Menendez brothers.

Justice Arthur Gilbert was born in Los Angeles in 1937 and grew up in a musical family. He attended Le Conte Junior High School and Hollywood High School, where he was friends with the cast of Ozzie and Harriet and was the rehearsal pianist for the Four Preps. He went on to UCLA, majoring in English Literature and Philosophy. He believes that a strong liberal arts education is important for those pursuing a professional career, and he has fond memories of his time in high school, where he wrote for the Junior Journal and interviewed jazz musicians. He believes that Huckleberry Finn is one of the greatest novels ever written.