Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Maxine Chesney

By now everybody knows that a judge in the 9th U. S. District Court has blocked the Social Security Administration from sending out letters about names of employees that don't match Social Security numbers on record, or vice-versa.

Everybody knows it was Judge Maxine M. Chesney. But that's all you get on this woman.

OK. Here's a picture I found of her after many hours of searching.


Obviously, this picture is of her during or a bit after her college years most likely, definitely not a picture of a woman in her mid-sixties.

But finding photos of judges is harder than you can possibly imagine. They must be scared to death of exposure to the general public.

She was born in 1942, went To UC Berkeley for her BA (graduated 1964) and then the Boalt Hall School of Law(also Berkeley, graduated 1967).

Ah ha. Graduated all that school stuff at Berkeley smack in the middle of the hippie movement centered around Haight and Ashbury just up the road in San Francisco.

On January 24, 1995, President William Jefferson Clinton nominated her for her federal judgeship, probably at the prodding of his wife Hillary, who was herself a sixties style hippie also. What the hell, maybe one -or both - of the Clinton's knew her during those free-wheeling and free-loving days of flower power.

It all fits. Just thought you'd like to know.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is what you get when liberals have authority. If the conservatives don't start pushing just as much we will get what we deserve. I am glad I never voted for Slick Willie

Anonymous said...

Actually, that is a picture of Rebecca Wiseman, not Maxine Chesney.

Anonymous said...

My friend and I were recently discussing about how technology has become so integrated in our day to day lives. Reading this post makes me think back to that debate we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have all become.


I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Societal concerns aside... I just hope that as memory becomes less expensive, the possibility of uploading our brains onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's a fantasy that I daydream about all the time.


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