Judicial Heroes & Legends

Abby Abinanti
Abby Abinanti

Abby Abinanti remembers it as a particularly big fight.   Two men in her Yurok tribe were engaged in a dispute about a haul of fish from the Klamath River in far Northern California. The Yurok In...

Judicial Heroes & Legends: June 2021 – Chief Judge Abby Abinanti

Abby Abinanti remembers it as a particularly big fight.   Two men in her Yurok tribe were engaged in a dispute about a haul of fish from the Klamath River in far Northern California. The Yurok In...

William S. Richardson
William S. Richardson

2009 Chief Justice William S. Richardson (HI)1919-2010 When William Richardson became chief justice of Hawaii, the state was seven years old. Over the next 16 years, he would establish a legacy as o...

Judicial Heroes & Legends: May 2021 – Chief Justice William S. Richardson

2009 Chief Justice William S. Richardson (HI)1919-2010 When William Richardson became chief justice of Hawaii, the state was seven years old. Over the next 16 years, he would establish a legacy as o...

fairhurst-bench
fairhurst-bench

Hon. Mary Fairhurst (Ret.)1957-2021 One of Mary Fairhurst’s favorite stories involves starfish. It has much more to do with her life philosophy than echinoderms. A person walking along the bea...

Judicial Heroes & Legends: April 2021 - Hon. Mary Fairhurst (Ret.)

Hon. Mary Fairhurst (Ret.)1957-2021 One of Mary Fairhurst’s favorite stories involves starfish. It has much more to do with her life philosophy than echinoderms. A person walking along the bea...

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