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Mary C. Morgan
(1946 - living) U.S.A.

Mary C. Morgan

Judge

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Morgan is a graduate of Smith College and New York University Law School. She began her career as an attorney with the National Housing & Economic Development Law Project from 1972 to 1973.

From 1973 to 1981, Morgan was engaged in the private practice of law in San Francisco. She specialized in family law, but also had experience in criminal, personal injury, estate planning, probate, landlord-tenant and various other civil matters.

California's first openly lesbian judge, Morgan served on the Municipal Court from 1981 to 1993, then moved to Washington, D.C., where she taught at American University and served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Policy Development of the Department of Justice.

Her partner, Roberta Achtenberg, served as assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration.

Morgan was the Municipal Court's presiding judge in 1987-88. Since her return to San Francisco in 1996, she has served as a judge of the San Francisco Superior Court by assignment and as a mediator and arbitrator.

Morgan has also been heavily involved in judicial education programs and is a former dean of the California Judicial College and chair of the Center for Judicial Education and Research New Judge Education Planning Committee.

She currently lives in the Bay Area with her partner, Roberta Achtenberg, and their son, Benjamin.

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