Victoria Kolakowski
| Victoria Kolakowski | |
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| Judge of the Alameda County Superior Court | |
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Assumed office January 4, 2011 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Michael Kolakowski August 29, 1961 Queens, New York |
| Spouse(s) | Cynthia Laird |
| Alma mater |
New College of Florida (B.A.) Paul M. Hebert Law Center (J.D.) Pacific School of Religion (M.Div) |
Victoria Kolakowski (born August 29, 1961 in Queens, New York) is an American lawyer, and, since January 2011, judge of the Alameda County Superior Court. Kolakowski is the first openly transgender person to serve as a trial judge in California.
Kolakowski is the daughter of Martin and June Kolakowski of Staten Island, New York. She is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City and the first person in her family to attend college. Kolakowski graduated from New College of Florida in Sarasota, Florida with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences in 1982.
She earned a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University in 1987 and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of New Orleans in 1990.
Kolakowski graduated from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with a juris doctor in 1989 as Michael Kolakowski. She began her transition during her last semester of law school. Kolakowski underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1991. Kolakowski had to sue to take the bar exam in Louisiana after coming out as transgender.
In 1997, Kolakowski received a Master of Divinity degree from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California.
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