Cynthia Hall

Professional career

• Cynthia Holcomb Hall (1929–2011) was a pioneering American federal judge, serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1984 until her death in 2011, and earlier on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the U.S. Tax Court
• She also held the role of a U.S. Naval Reserve Lieutenant, JAG Corps (1951–1953) and was the first woman to serve as a law clerk on the Ninth Circuit (1954–1955)

Education

Additional information

• Born February 19, 1929 in Los Angeles, California, Hall obtained an A.B. from Stanford University (1951), an LL.B. from Stanford Law School (1954), and an LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law (1960).