Ronald M. George
| Ronald M. George | |
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Ronald M. George gives a speech on March 10, 2009
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| 27th Chief Justice of California | |
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In office May 1, 1996 – January 2, 2011 |
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| Appointed by | Pete Wilson |
| Preceded by | Malcolm M. Lucas |
| Succeeded by | Tani Cantil-Sakauye |
| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California | |
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In office September 3, 1991 – May 1, 1996 |
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| Appointed by | Pete Wilson |
| Preceded by | Allen Broussard |
| Succeeded by | Janice Rogers Brown |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Ronald Marc George March 11, 1940 Beverly Hills, California |
| Spouse(s) | Barbara |
| Children | Three sons (Eric, Andrew, Christopher) |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University Stanford Law School |
Ronald Marc George (born March 11, 1940) is the retired 27th Chief Justice of California, where he headed the Supreme Court of California and the Judicial Council of California. Governor Pete Wilson appointed George as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1991 and elevated George to Chief Justice in 1996.
Ron George grew up in Beverly Hills, the son of a Hungarian immigrant mother and French immigrant father. A 1957 graduate of Beverly Hills High School, George earned his B.A. from Princeton University in 1961 and his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1964.
Upon graduating from Stanford, George was a Deputy California Attorney General from 1965–1972. As a Deputy Attorney General, he argued unsuccessfully on behalf of the State of California before the United States Supreme Court in Chimel v. California in 1969. The following year, he again represented California before the U.S. Supreme Court, this time successfully defending the death penalty in McGautha v. California. In 1971, he represented California as an amicus curiae in support of the successful argument of the State of Illinois in Kirby v. Illinois.
In 1972, his final year as a Deputy Attorney General, George unsuccessfully argued in favor of the death penalty before the California Supreme Court in California v. Anderson but was successful in defending the conviction of Sirhan Sirhan in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. Senator and 1968 presidential candidate. The ruling in California v. Anderson resulted in the dismissal of Aikens v. California as moot; George was to have represented the State of California in this case.
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