Roger J. Traynor
Roger J. Traynor was born on February 12, 1900. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Roger J. Traynor
Roger John Traynor (February 12, 1900 – May 14, 1983) was an American lawyer who served as Chief Justice of California from 1964 to 1970 and was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1940 to 1964. Traynor had served as a deputy attorney general of California under Earl Warren, and an acting dean and professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law. A jurist noted for liberalism and activism, Traynor's 30-year career as California's 77th Justice coincided with demographic, social, and governmental growth in California and in the United States. Traynor believed (in the words of…