Word: woman
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...voided a law that banned interracial marriage -anticipating the U.S. Supreme Court by 19 years. Now Governor Jerry Brown is carrying that progressive tradition to the court itself. He has named Rose Elizabeth Bird, 40, California's Agriculture and Services Secretary, to be not only the first woman on the seven-member court but also the chief justice. At the same time, Brown appointed the court's first black: Alameda County Superior Court Judge Wiley W. Manuel...
...doubts, as they are expressed, have nothing to do with Bird's sex. After all, women serve on the supreme court in five states, and a woman already heads one: North Carolina's. What upsets some of Bird's critics is that while she has had experience as a public defender, she has never been a judge...
...twelve, her mother took a factory job, then moved the family to upstate New York -Bird studied at Long Island University, then went on to graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. After earning her law degree at Berkeley in 1965, she became the first woman to clerk on the Nevada Supreme Court, where Justice David Zenoff pronounced her "intellectually marvelous." Bird, who has never been married, then became the first female public defender in Santa Clara County, Calif., and also taught litigation and consumer law from 1972 to 1974 at Stanford...
...Governor Brown chose her to head the agriculture and services agency, making her the first woman cabinet officer in California history. There she pushed through the state's still hotly debated Agricultural Labor Relations Act. On the bench, she is expected to work toward reforms in court procedures. "I've seen her on the firing line, and invariably her judgment is of the highest order," says Brown. "I think she can bring to her role a fundamental quality-wisdom...
...Zero Population Growth, Inc. A Valentine received by some Americans last week, inscribed Love ... Carefully, was equipped with a red condom. But few young couples in the U.S. today need antinatalist exhortations or equipment. Since 1957 the fertility rate has dropped from a peak of 3.76 children per woman to a record low of 1.75 last year. Though it may rise in the next 30 years, it is highly improbable that Americans in the foreseeable future will again engage in the great procreational spree of the postwar years. The baby boom has become a bust...