The case of Rose Bird : gender, politics, and the California courts /

"Rose Elizabeth Bird was forty years old when in 1977 Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown chose her to become California's first female supreme court chief justice. Appointed to a court with a stellar reputation for being the nation's most progressive, Bird became a lightning r...

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Main Author: Cairns, Kathleen A., 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
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520 |a "This biography of Rose Elizabeth Bird is an overdue look at California's first female supreme court chief justice, against the backdrop of California's political and cultural climate in the 1970s and 1980s"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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