Shirley Hufstedler

Shirley Mount Hufstedler (born 1925, in Denver, Colorado) is an American lawyer who served as the first United States Secretary of Education, under President Jimmy Carter.

Biography

Shirley Mount Hufstedler was born August 24, 1925 in Denver, Colorado. She attended the University of New Mexico (B.B.A. 1945) and Stanford Law School (LL.B. 1949).

Hufstedler has had a distinguished career at the highest levels of legal and public service. She began in private practice in Los Angeles in 1950. From 1960 to 1961, she served as Special Legal Consultant to the Attorney General of California in the complex Colorado River litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1961, she was appointed Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, a position to which she was elected in 1962.

In 1966, she was appointed Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal. President Lyndon Johnson appointed her Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1968. She was not the first woman to serve on a federal Court of Appeals, but for at least part of her tenure was the only woman serving among approximately 100 judges nationwide. She was often mentioned as a possible nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court and served for eleven years before President Jimmy Carter appointed her to be the first U.S. Secretary of Education.

In 1981, Hufstedler returned to private life, teaching and practicing law. She was a partner in the firm Hufstedler & Kaus, now merged into Morrison & Foerster. She is the recipient of 20 honorary doctoral degrees from American universities. She has served on boards of trustees, governing boards and visiting committees for numerous foundations, institutions, corporations and universities.

Carter would later say that if he had a Supreme Court appointment, he would have nominated Hufstedler.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Jimmy Carter

External links

• Morrison & Foerster: Shirley M. Hufstedler

• Shirley Hufstedler at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

v • d • e United States Secretaries of Education Hufstedler • Bell • Bennett • Cavazos • Alexander • Riley • Paige • Spellings • Duncan

v • d • e Cabinet of President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)   Cabinet Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (1977–1980) • Edmund Muskie (1980-1981) Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal (1977–1979) • G. William Miller (1979-1981) Secretary of Defense Harold Brown (1977–1981) Attorney General Griffin Bell (1977-1979) • Benjamin R. Civiletti (1979-1981) Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Andrus (1977-1981) Secretary of Agriculture Robert Bergland (1977-1981) Secretary of Commerce Juanita M. Kreps (1977-1979) • Philip M. Klutznick (1979-1981) Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall (1977-1981) Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph A. Califano, Jr. (1977-1979) • Patricia Roberts Harris (1979-1979) Secretary of Health and Human Services Patricia Roberts Harris (1979-1981) Secretary of Education Shirley M. Hufstedler (1979-1981) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Roberts Harris (1977-1979) • Maurice "Moon" Landrieu (1979–1981) Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams (1977–1979) • Neil E. Goldschmidt (1979–1981) Secretary of Energy James R. Schlesinger (1977-1979) • Charles W. Duncan (1979-1981)   Cabinet-level Vice President Walter Mondale (1977-1981) Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young (1977 – 1979) • Donald McHenry (1979 – 1981) Director of the Office of Management and Budget Thomas "Bert" Lance (1977) • James T. McIntyre (1978 – 1981) Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Charles L. Schultze (1977 – 1981) Advisor to the President on National Security Affairs Zbigniew Brzezinski (1977 – 1981)

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