The State - News from Jan. 7, 1987
Gov. George Deukmejian formally appointed state Supreme Court Justice Malcolm M. Lucas as chief justice of California. Deukmejian had announced his intention to name Lucas chief justice on Nov. 26, but he could not make the formal appointment until Rose Elizabeth Bird’s term had expired. Lucas, 59, a law partner of Deukmejian in the 1960s, served 12 years as a federal district judge before Deukmejian appointed him as associate justice of the state Supreme Court in 1984.
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