2022
The Bill Edlund Award for Professionalism in the Law honoring John W. Keker (December 2022)
NJCHS Annual Gala: Strangers In A Strange Land (October 2022)
Meet the Judges of the Ninth Circuit (June 2022)
“My Name is Pauli Murray”: Panel Discussion & Movie Pass (June 2022)
Arizona’s Women in the Law (March 2022)
Voting Rights: Then, Now, & Tomorrow (March 2022)
“Tinkering” with Student Speech: Courts and the First Amendment (February 2022)
The Bill Edlund Award for Professionalism in the Law Award honoring John W. Keker
The Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society and the Northern District Historical Society will honor the memory of Bill Edlund by presenting this year’s Bill Edlund Award for Professionalism in the Law to John W. Keker, Esq. of Keker, Van Nest & Peters.
Watch the ceremony here!NJCHS Gala 2022: Strangers In A Strange Land
Thanks to all who attended our 2022 Gala, in person and virtually over Zoom. It was a delightful evening, starting with the moving and inspiring presentation by Judges Bea, Nguyen, and Benitez, in conversation with Judge Michael Daly Hawkins, about having fled their homelands to come to the United States.
There is so much more to these Judges’ stories, and those of Judges Tashima and Du, in Western Legal History 32(2): Strangers In A Strange Land.
We are so grateful to all of our sponsors for their support of this event and also of the Society throughout the year.
The Demonization of (Im)migrants:
Dust Bowl Refugees, the Supreme Court,
and the Right to Travel
With a special introduction by Hon. David G. Estudillo, Chief Judge, Western District of Washington.
Join us for an engaging presentation by lawyer, legal scholar, and historian John S. Caragozian. In 1941, in Edwards v. California, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of California’s anti-Okie law, which, like Washington’s and other states’ laws, made it illegal to knowingly assist a pauper in entering the state.
Caragozian looks at the history preceding these laws, the Supreme Court case, and implications for the legality of cross-state border criminal enforcement today.
With Q&A session moderated by Richard Rahm, Esq., DLA Piper.
Meet the Judges of the Ninth Circuit
Meet judges of the Ninth Circuit (including some newer members) in a panel discussion as they update us on the state of court operations, discuss best practices for briefing and oral argument, and more.
Watch the full program here!Panelists (listed left to right):
- Hon. Daniel A. Bress | A native of Gilroy, California, Judge Bress graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and received his J.D. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review. Following law school, Judge Bress clerked for the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the Honorable Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Bress was then a lawyer private practice, first at Munger Tolles & Olson and later at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he was a litigation partner. Judge Bress has also taught law school courses at the University of Virginia School of Law and the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University. Judge Bress was nominated and confirmed to the Ninth Circuit in 2019.
- Hon. Consuelo M. Callahan | Judge Callahan began her lifelong career in public service in California as a deputy city attorney, followed by 10 years as a deputy district attorney and supervisory district attorney. Judge Callahan joined the State Court bench in 1986, first as a Commissioner in Municipal Court, then as a Superior Court Judge, and finally as an Associate Justice on the California Court of Appeal, before she was appointed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by President George W. Bush in 2003. Her chambers are in Sacramento.
- Hon. Gabriel P. Sanchez | Prior to his appointment to the Ninth Circuit, Judge Sanchez was an Associate Justice on the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District. Before joining the bench, Judge Sanchez served as Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary to California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr, Deputy Attorney General for the California Department of Justice, and as an associate for Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP at its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Judge Sanchez received his B.A. from Yale University (1998), M.Phil. from Cambridge University (2000), and J.D. from Yale Law School (2005). He was a Fulbright scholar in 1999 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he surveyed and wrote about presidential electoral campaign politics. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard A. Paez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Judge Sanchez was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden in September 2021 and confirmed by the United States Senate on January 12, 2022.
Moderated by Asim Bhansali, Esq., Kwun Bhansali Lazarus LLP
“My Name is Pauli Murray”: Panel Discussion & Movie Pass
Join us for a panel discussion featuring the filmmaker, Betsy West, and a discussion about the documentary on groundbreaking civil rights attorney Pauli Murray, a non-binary Black lawyer, activist and poet who influenced both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall.
After a welcome by Chief Judge Ricardo Martinez, the panel explores current issues of diversity, equity and inclusion in the law starting from the lens of Pauli Murray’s legal and personal journey.
Watch the full program here! Stream the documentary!
Meet the panelists:
Arizona’s Women in the Law:
Going First and Going Forward
Where have we been and where are we now? Join our distinguished panel as they discuss what it was like to be the first woman in a particular role in the law. Our panelists also will provide us with their insights into how things have (or have not) changed.
Panelists:
- Chief Justice Ruth McGregor (ret.) | Chief Justice McGregor served on the Arizona Supreme Court from February 1998 until June 30, 2009. She was the Court’s Chief Justice from June 2005 until her retirement. She was also a member of the Arizona Court of Appeals from 1989 until 1998, where she served as Chief Judge from 1995 to 1997. She served as law clerk to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor during Justice O’Connor’s first term on the United States Supreme Court.
- Hon. Mary Murguia | Judge Murguia is the Ninth Circuit’s twelfth chief judge, the first judge of Hispanic descent to serve as chief judge of the Ninth Circuit, and the second woman to hold the position on the court.
- Hon. Mary Schroeder | Among many other roles, Judge Schroeder served as the first female chief judge of the Ninth Circuit from 2000 to 2007. Judge Schroeder served both as moderator and as a panelist for this program.
- Patricia Refo | Patricia Refo is the Immediate Past President of the American Bar Association. She also has served as Chair of the ABA House of Delegates and the ABA Section of Litigation; on the Arizona Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence, and is a former member of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence of the United States Judicial Conference.
Patricia Refo shares what it was like when Sandra Day O’Connor was selected as the first woman to be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Watch the full program here! Watch more women in the law programsVoting Rights: Then, Now, and Tomorrow
Voting is the cornerstone of democracy! Join us as this unparalleled panel of experts looks at voting rights in our country, both historically and into the future. They will examine federal and state voting laws, as well as the different tools used to increase (or suppress) voter turnout and access.
Panelists:
- Hon. Thelton Henderson (ret.)
- Pam Karlan
- Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
- Professor Brian Landsberg
Presented by the Northern District of California Historical Society, co-sponsored by the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, the Northern District Practice Program and the Northern District of California chapter of the FBA.
“Tinkering” with Student Speech:
Courts and the First Amendment
The U.S. Supreme Court has said that students “do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression at the schoolhouse gate,” but the exact parameters of that freedom have been the subject of numerous court opinions.
Panelists:
- Judge M. Margaret McKeown, author of the Ninth Circuit’s opinion in Dariano v. Morgan Hills Unified School District
- UCLA Law Prof. Eugene Volokh, author of an amicus brief in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.
- Mary Beth Tinker, plaintiff in the seminal Tinker v. Des Moines case and veteran speaker on the issue of student free speech
Mary Beth Tinker tells the story of how she, her siblings, and other middle and high school students wore black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War. Despite adults and the school district telling them not to do so, Tinker and others were determined to fight for what they believed in.
Watch the full program here!