Ruth M. Friedman; Administrative Law Judge
Ruth M. Friedman, 48, administrative law judge for the California Personnel Board and former law professor. Educated at UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago Law School, she had heard state employee discipline and termination cases for the last decade. She sat as an administrative law judge from 1980 to 1982 for the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, hearing labor disputes. She previously was a staff lawyer for the board, and had been in private practice in San Francisco and Hayward. On Monday in Oakland of cancer.
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