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

Deborah Batts, the natn’s first openly gay member of the feral judiciary, has died. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAnother gay judge said Judge Batts “lerally broke down the closet door and allowed the rt of to walk through .

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

) He was one a small handful of openly gay ernment officials the untry. 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!

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

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.