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Interviews with ROBERT F. PECKHAM on family background and childhood in Palo Alto; Stanford University and Law School, 1941, 1945; Democratic party politics, 1938-1950; private law practice, Santa Clara County, 1944-1948, 1953-1959; U.S. Attorney's Office, San Francisco, 1948-1953; community college district of Santa Clara County. Interviews with federal judges WAYNE D. BRAZIL, JAMES R. BROWNING, ALFRED T. GOODWIN, and WILLIAM H. ORRICK on Peckham as mediator, alternate dispute resolution, judicial administrative politics, Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990, and formation of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society. Interviews with JOSEPH C. HOUGHTELING on Democratic politics, 1948-1960, personal reminiscences; with CAROL P. PECKHAM and STEPHEN A. MAYO on travels and international exchange of legal ideas; with ROBERT W. PETERSON and EDWARD STEINMAN on clerking, draft cases, desegregation cases, bank problems, People's Park.

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Title
Robert F. Peckham: The Honorable Robert Peckham, 1920-1993 His Legal, Political, and Judicial Life
Creator
Peckham, Robert F., interviewee
McGarrigle, Leah, interviewer
Hicke, Carole, interviewer
Published
Berkeley, CA, Regional Oral History Office, 1995
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U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Oral Histories
Subject (Topic)
Politics, Law, and Policy
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Text
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Oral histories.
Archive
The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
Note
Peckham, Robert F. "Robert F. Peckham: The Honorable Robert Peckham, 1920-1993 His Legal, Political, and Judicial Life." Interview by Leah McGarrigle and Carole Hicke in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1995.
Interview date(s) 1992
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