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Albert Lee Stephens Sr.

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1935–1937

Albert Lee Stephens Sr., Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Education

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  • University of Southern California Law School (now Gould School of Law)LL.B., 1903

Career

Private practice, Los Angeles, California, 1899-1906; Justice of the peace, Los Angeles, California, 1906-1910; Private practice, 1910-1911, 1919-1920; Civil service commissioner, State of California, 1911-1913; City attorney, Los Angeles, California, 1913-1919; Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, 1919-1932; Justice, California Court of Appeal, 1932-1935; presiding justice, 1933-1935; Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1957-1958

Biography

Albert Lee Stephens Sr. (January 25, 1874 – January 15, 1965) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1937 to 1965. Prior to that, he was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and the Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Two.

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