Addg to Bin's Diverse Slate of Judicial Nome, Senate Confirms SF's First Openly Gay Feral Judge

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• DEBORAH BATTS, THE NATN’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE, DI AT 72
• DEBORAH A. BATTS, FIRST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE, DI AT 72
• 1ST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE AD AT 72
• DONALD TMP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDICIAL NOMEE WAS JT APPROVED BY THE SENATE. HERE'S WHY LGBT GROUPS AREN'T THRILLED
• PNEER, PRIDG: LACHS ’63, WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE, REFLECTS
• SENATE CONFIRMS NATN’S FIRST OPENLY-GAY FERAL APPELLATE JUDGE
• ADDG TO BIN'S DIVERSE SLATE OF JUDICIAL NOME, SENATE CONFIRMS SF'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE
• CALIFORNIA GOV NOMAT 1ST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO STATE SUPREME COURT
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL THE US WAS SHOT TO DEATH

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

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

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Batts, the first openly gay judge to s on the feral bench, who prid over proment s volvg polil rptn, terrorism and the Central Park Five civil se, died on Monday at her home Manhattan. After her nomatn 1994 by Print Bill Clton, took 17 years before a send openly gay judge, J.

1ST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE AD AT 72

She was sworn on June 23, 1994, durg Gay Pri Week.

”In May, durg a rerd panel discsn held Manhattan to memorate Judge Batts’s 25 years on the bench, she appeared wh three other openly gay feral judg. Batts, the First Openly Gay Feral Judge, Is Dead at 72. Febary 3, 2020, 4:14 PMThe first openly gay judge appoted to a U.

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

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.

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. 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.

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

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.

ADDG TO BIN'S DIVERSE SLATE OF JUDICIAL NOME, SENATE CONFIRMS SF'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE

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. He’s gay. The 52-41 vote mak Walker the first openly gay feral district judge Virgia, acrdg to the state’s two U.

In fact, the gay rights anizatn Lambda Legal told the Daily Prs and Virgian-Pilot last year that Walker would be the first openly gay or lbian feral district or appeals urt judge the entire Fourth Circu, a five-state regn spanng om Maryland to South Carola. In a Universy of Virgia Law School article published the fall of 2021, Walker discsed his personal life, sayg he met his hband while playg the DC Gay Flag Football League. A judge also tossed a lawsu agast Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law — dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law by crics, which prohibs “classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty” krgarten through eighth gra, “or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards.

CALIFORNIA GOV NOMAT 1ST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO STATE SUPREME COURT

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She was sworn on June 23, 1994, durg Gay Pri Week by Print Bill Clton. Court of Appeals for the Feral Circu, makg him the first openly-gay person to serve as a feral appellate judge.

“As an openly gay man tak to the feral appellate urt bench for the very first time, barriers to achievement for the next generatn of LGBT young people are cmblg every day.

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL THE US WAS SHOT TO DEATH

Hugh be the eighth openly-gay feral judge wh a lifetime appotment to the bench, cludg seven feral district urt judg who were nomated by Print Obama: Nza I. The Human Rights Campaign is Ameri's largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equaly. The San Francis feral bench jt got s first openly gay judge, as odd as that is to say 2023.

As the Chronicle reported at the time, Bin's nomatn of Pts me last September, but the Senate vote is only jt happeng now, after the nomatn cleared the Judiciary Commtee — and after Dianne Feste returned wh her all-important Democratic the Chronicle not today, Pts is not the first known gay judge on the SF feral bench.

That was Judge Vghn Walker, the famed Prop 8-squashg judge who retired 2011, and who didn't technilly e out as gay until after he a statement after the Senate's vote, attorney Lena Zwarensteyn of the Learship Conference on Civil and Human Rights said of Pts, "He brgs signifint experience protectg the rights of workg people and the eedom to vote — a civil rights background that is unfortunately unrreprented our judiciary. Gav Newsom nomated the first openly gay Black man to the state Supreme Court on Monday, potentially replacg one of the urt's more nservative members wh a former feral civil rights attorney who prosecuted cross-burngs and police misnduct s unr Print Ronald Reagan. Mart Jenks, 66, would be the urt's first gay member and the third Black person to serve on , acrdg to the ernor's office.