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9th Circuit strikes down felon's firearm conviction
Judges and Judiciary
Aug. 19, 2003
Benched, at Last
SAN FRANCISCO - Ron Albers didn't let losing two elections to become a San Francisco judge end his dream of holding judicial office. As a career deputy public defender, Albers was familiar with the uphill push against the odds to succeed.
Court commissioner
San Francisco
Career highlights: Appointed commissioner by San Francisco superior court May 2002; deputy public defender 1979-2002; member, Judicial Nominees Evaluation Commission, 1990-94; defense counsel during last San Francisco courtroom shooting, where father of a slaying victim shot her assailant, 1984; helped establish the nation's first battered women's shelter in St. Paul., Minn., 1974.
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