The Case of Rose Bird: Gender, Politics, and the California Courts

by KathleenA.Cairns (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2016

  $51.30

  Rose Elizabeth Bird was forty years old when in 1977 Governor Edmund G. Brown chose her to become California's first female supreme court chief justice. Bird became a lightning rod for the opposition due to her liberalism, inexperience, and gender. The Case of Rose Bird provides a fascinating look at this important woman and the political and cultural climate of California in the 1970s and 1980s.