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Former State Bar President Hufstedler, 102, Dies
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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SETH M. HUFSTEDLER 1922-2024 |
Former State Bar President Seth M. Hufstedler, who once headed a prestigious Los Angeles law firm, has died at the age of 102.
Hufstedler was the husband of Shirley Hufstedler, a judge of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who resigned to become the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. She died March 30, 2016, at the age of 90.
The Hufstedler’s were wed in 1949. That was the year they graduated from Stanford Law School.
Seth Hufstedler was first in his class and his soon-to-be wife tied for third place with Warren Christopher, who was to become president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and later U.S. secretary of state.
Admitted to the State Bar on Jan. 5, 1950, Seth Hufstedler was on active status for 74 years. He assumed inactive status last Jan. 19.
He was a founding partner of the law firm of Beardsley Hufstedler & Kemble which underwent name changes—including Hufstedler, Miller, Carlson & Beardsley, then Hufstedler, Miller, Kaus & Beardsley, ultimately Hufstedler & Kaus—before merging into Morrison & Foerster in 1995.
In 1969, Seth Hufstedler was president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and was State Bar president in 1973-74.
He served as special counsel to the Commission on Judicial Performance in 1979 at its televised hearings into workings of the California Supreme Court amid controversy over the delay in the release of two criminal-law decisions for political purposes.
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