Mildred L. Lillie was a California Court of Appeals Justice and the longest-serving appellate judge in California. Born in Ida Grove, Iowa in 1915, Lillie earned her bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley in 1935 and her law degree from Berkeley Law (formerly known as Boalt Hall) in 1938. After working in private practice in Fresno for several years, she became an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of California in 1942 and was appointed as a Judge to the Municipal Court of the City of Los Angeles in 1947. In 1949, she became the youngest Judge appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court and was appointed to the California Court of Appeal in 1958, where she served until her death in 2002. In this donated interview from the Committee on the History of Law in California of the California State Bar, Lillie discusses her childhood in the Great Depression, the history of women in American law, cases from the Los Angeles Domestic Relations Court, the judicial election process, and the history of the California Court of Appeals.