
Career Highlights: U.S. Navy petty officer second class, 1946-49; private practice, San Diego, 1955-70; board member, Federal Judicial Center, 1988-91; member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1991-95; nominated October 1970, confirmed October 1970, senior status April 1996
Law School: UC Berkeley Boalt Hall, LLB, 1995
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - His mother was a high school dropout. His father was an alcoholic who didn't make it past the third grade.
Education was not a priority in the childhood home of J. Clifford Wallace.
"There was never anything about doing homework," Wallace said of his San Diego home. "I rea... (continued)