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1 Cal. Legal Hist. 73 (2006)
The Newman Oral History: An Introduction

handle is hein.journals/calegh1 and id is 79 raw text is: The Newman Oral History: An Introduction Jennifer DeMarco* On June 29, 1977, Governor Jerry Brown appointed Frank Newman, a Boalt Hall School of Law professor and its former dean, to the position of asso- ciate justice of the Supreme Court of California, filling the seat vacated by Jus- tice Marshall F. McComb. The Newman appointment surprised most court watchers, but it was described by the governor's staff at the time as a reflection of Brown's concern with maintaining the court's reputation for legal scholar- ship. Indeed, Gray Davis, then a Brown staffer, told the press that the governor chose Newman because he thought him a legal heavyweight who was in the tradition of Roger Traynor.-2 Others believed the real reason that Brown chose Newman, a well-respected academic, was to counter the heavy criticism leveled at the governor for his ap- Jennifer DeMarco holds the J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley and is an attorney in the firm of Greene, Radovsky, Maloney, and Share, LLP in San Fran- cisco. 1 John Balzar, Brown Picks Scholar for Supreme Court, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 June 1977, Al. 2 Tom Goff, Brown Appoints UC Professor to Supreme Court, Los Angeles Titnes, 29 June 1977, sec. I1, p. 1.

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