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Another gay judge said Judge Batts “lerally broke down the closet door and allowed the rt of to walk through .”

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1ST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE AD AT 72

Wh days of his appotment to the Los Angel County Superr Court 1979, a landmark event that ma him the first openly gay judge the world, UCLA School of Law alumn Stephen Lachs ’63 uld tell that thgs would never be the same. * first gay federal judge *

Febary 3, 2020, 4:14 PMThe first openly gay judge appoted to a U. Only 14 out of 870 feral judghips are held by openly gay or lbian judg (cludg Robson), add, and there has never been an openly bisexual or transgenr judicial nomee.

Deborah Batts, the natn’s first openly gay member of the feral judiciary, has died.

DEBORAH BATTS, THE NATN’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE, DI AT 72

District Judge Julian Abele Cook 's a member of the Gay and Lbian Bar Associatn and has done pro bono for Lambda Legal, a nonprof LGBT legal aid group. Tmp put up gay nservative Patrick Bumatay for the 9th Circu San Francis 2018.

DONALD TMP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDICIAL NOMEE WAS JT APPROVED BY THE SENATE. HERE'S WHY LGBT GROUPS AREN'T THRILLED

Currently there is only one openly gay feral appeals urt judge the U. Wh days of his appotment to the Los Angel County Superr Court 1979, a landmark event that ma him the first openly gay judge the world, UCLA School of Law alumn Stephen Lachs ’63 uld tell that thgs would never be the same. I never thought that I, as a gay person, uld do anythg, and now I see that you n do somethg wh your life.

PNEER, PRIDG: LACHS ’63, WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE, REFLECTS

‘They Want to Meet a Gay Lawyer’. He was not out beyond a small circle of iends – or, as he says, “out-out” – until the early 1970s, when an acquatance asked him to attend a small meetg of gay law stunts who traveled om as far away as San Diego.

DEBORAH A. BATTS, FIRST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE, DI AT 72

They want to meet a gay lawyer. So began his learship the burgeong gay rights movement and muny support groups.

Jerry Brown, then his first two-term stt as the state’s chief executive, was elected wh substantial support om members of the gay and lbian muny.

SENATE CONFIRMS NATN’S FIRST OPENLY-GAY FERAL APPELLATE JUDGE

(While many sourc tablish that Lachs was the first openly gay judge Ameri, no evince apparently refut the prumptn that he was also the first openly gay judge the world, and Lachs has never heard otherwise. ) He was one a small handful of openly gay ernment officials the untry.

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US Senate nfirms first openly gay feral judge Virgia — and first 4th Circu – Daily Prs .

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