Shirley Hufstedler

Shirley Mount Hufstedler ( born August 24, 1925 in Denver) is a former United States Senator and politician who belonged to the Cabinet under President Jimmy Carter as Minister of Education.

Shirley Hufstedler graduated in 1945 as Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of New Mexico from; In 1949 she received a Bachelor of Laws degree from Stanford University. She then began a successful legal career. Having initially worked since 1950 as an independent lawyer in Los Angeles, she served 1960-1961 as Special Advisor to the Attorney General of California in a procedure relating to the Colorado River in the Supreme Court. In 1961 she was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County; the following year there was an official selection in this office.

1966 Shirley Hufstedler received the vocation to assessors judge at the Court of Appeal of California, before U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth District Court in 1968. This post she held out for eleven years, until President Carter in 1979 made ​​her the first head of the newly created Ministry of Education. Prior to the formation had been part of the field of health, education and welfare ministry. 1981, after Carter's defeat in the presidential election against Ronald Reagan, she dropped back out of the cabinet, and thus from politics.

As a result, Shirley Hufstedler worked as an attorney and partner at the law firm Hufstedler & Kaus; the same time, she taught as a law lecturer at the University of California, the University of Iowa and the University of Vermont. They also had in 1982 a professorship at Stanford and in 1996 was a guest lecturer at St Catherine 's College, Oxford. She has been awarded 20 honorary doctorates from American universities and was a member of the boards of various foundations, universities and other institutions.