Hufstedler, Shirley Ann Mount
1925 -

Details
Alias: Shirley Ann Mount
Born: 1925 in Denver, Colorado
Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Professional Facts
Regions and States of Practice:
DC, South
CA, West
Legal Education:
Stanford University Law School, 1949
Other Education:
University of New Mexico (1945)
Positions During Her Career:
Private practitioner (1950-1961, 1981-present)
Judge for Los Angeles County Superior Court (1961- 1966)
Associate justice for California Court of Appeals (1966-1968)
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1968-1979)
U.S. Secretary of the Department of Education (1979- 1981)
Phleger professor of law at Stanford Law School (1982)
Firsts:
Secretary of the Department of Education (1979)
Further Research Materials

References:
Women in the Federal Judiciary: Three Way Pavers and the Exhilarating Change President Carter Wrought
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Laura W. Brill, Women in the Federal Judiciary: Three Way Pavers and the Exhilarating Change President Carter Wrought, 64 Fordham Law Review 281 (November 1995)
Gina Shaffer, Side by Side: Seth and Shirley Hufstedler, Metropolitan News, November 4, 1983
Lynn Gilbert and Gaylen Moore, Particular Passions: Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times. New York: C.N. Potter (1981).

Links:
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges