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State Bar & Bar Associations

Dec. 19, 2008

Personal is Political for Incoming San Francisco Bar President, Newlywed

Russ Roeca, chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco's Marriage Fairness Task Force, takes over as the bar's president today.

By Amy Yarbrough
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Russ Roeca still gets goose bumps reading the California Supreme Court's May decision acknowledging that everyone has the right to marry.

The Bar Association of San Francisco's new president, Roeca couldn't be taking office at a more fitting time. In October, he married his longtime partner Richard Vernon, only to see their union threatened by the passage in November of Proposition 8.

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