Shirley Ann Mount was born in Denver, Colorado back in 1925. Her father worked in construction during the Great Depression. In 1945, she graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of New Mexico. She continued her education with a Bachelor of Laws in 1949 for Stanford Law School.
She graduated at the top of the class but had difficulty in finding employment at the time which was dominated by males. She eventually made her way to the Attorney General’s Office in California where she served as Special Legal Consultant to the Attorney General. She was appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court. In 1969, she was appointed Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeals. She died in 2016, she was 90.
What you may not know about Shirley Ann Mount Hufstedler is that she served as the first United States Secretary of Education under President Jimmy Carter. At the time of her secretarial appointment, she was the highest ranking-woman in the federal judiciary. She served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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