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.
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- PNEER, PRIDG: LACHS ’63, WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE, REFLECTS
- DONALD TMP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDICIAL NOMEE WAS JT APPROVED BY THE SENATE. HERE'S WHY LGBT GROUPS AREN'T THRILLED
- 1ST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE AD AT 72
- PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON N.Y. HIGH COURT, DI AT 61
- BRA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE BE MASTER OF THE ROLLS
- SENATE NFIRMS TWO OPENLY GAY, BLACK JUDG TO FERAL BENCH
PNEER, PRIDG: LACHS ’63, WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE, REFLECTS
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DONALD TMP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDICIAL NOMEE WAS JT APPROVED BY THE SENATE. HERE'S WHY LGBT GROUPS AREN'T THRILLED
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. ‘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.
1ST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE AD 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.
(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.
PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON N.Y. HIGH COURT, DI AT 61
In a sign of the tim, a headle and the ptn on a wily distributed wire-service photograph lled him “California’s first avowed homosexual judge, ” a phrase that still startl. He had never expected to be such a trailblazer, he says, lightly addg, “I had barely taken my vows – as an avowed homosexual!
Among them was Rand Schrar, another pneerg UCLA Law alumn who had been the first openly gay staffer the L. Six years apart age, Lachs and Schrar had fact met at that early-1970s gatherg of gay law stunts, when Lachs me out.
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.
BRA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE BE MASTER OF THE ROLLS
Currently there is only one openly gay feral appeals urt judge the U. The PayPal founr, after all, has never practiced law, once wrote that women's sufage was anthetil to a "palist mocracy, " and promot ge ias like cryonics and payg young geni to skip once-disqualifyg reason that no longer seems to apply: Thiel is openly gay. Prently, there are ten known openly gay or lbian feral district urt judg—all appoted sce 2011—out of nearly 900, and one feral appeals urt judge, appoted 2013.
And acrdg to a report released last month by the LGBTQ legal rights anizatn Lambda Legal, out of 340 state high urt jtic, only 10 are openly gay or lbian; addn, only two judg natnwi are transgenr. "If we're lookg for somebody who is smart, has a law gree but also uld brg a different kd of perspective, I uld see Tammy, " said Indiana Universy law profsor Steve Sanrs, who noted that the former chief jtice Earl Warren was appoted wh no judicial experience directly om his perch as California ernor others make that list: Oregon ernor Kate Brown, 56, who is the first openly bisexual person to be elected ernor and has a law gree, and Mary Healey, 45, the first and only openly gay state attorney urse, this is only worth discsg bee the Senate's attu toward LGBTQ nome has unrgone a dramatic improvement of late. "It's tellg that we're talkg about the first openly gay jtice, bee we're pretty sure the first gay jtice has already e and gone and we jt don't know , " he Steve Fris on Twter.
SENATE NFIRMS TWO OPENLY GAY, BLACK JUDG TO FERAL BENCH
Febary 3, 2020, 4:14 PMThe first openly gay judge appoted to a U. Feman, the first openly gay jurist to serve on New York State’s hight urt, the Court of Appeals, died on Wednday at a Manhattan hospal.
“Certaly my entire reer has been about promotg equal accs and equal jtice for all, ” Judge Feman rpond, alludg to his own experience as a gay man, “and I hope I add to the diversy of perspectiv that the urt nsirs.
He was sworn on June 21, 2017, durg Gay Pri a statement after the ath, Governor Cuomo lled the judge a “iend and role mol to untls L.