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Mar. 9, 2021
California’s Technicolor clerkship: Rose Bird and her clerks
An excerpt from “Of Courtiers & Princes: Stories of Lower Court Clerks and Their Judges.”
Kirsten D. Levingston
Kirsten Levingston, the director of the Racial Justice Program at Wellspring Advisors, previously held the position of program officer at the Ford Foundation and the criminal justice program director at the Brennan Center for Justice. Levingston holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a master's in fine arts from the New School.
Barbara Olshansky sat outside the imposing oak doors of Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird's chambers, awaiting her interview. She had not planned to clerk for a judge after law school. When her public interest job fell through during her third year, however, one of her Stanford professors suggested she contact Bird, who happened to be filling a vacancy. Olshansky thought a clerkship out of reach -- after all, "I had that C+ in Torts," she acknowledg...
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