Memorial for Rose Bird to Be Held Sunday

A public memorial service for former state Supreme Court Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Skirball Cultural Center’s Magnin Auditorium, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Brentwood.

Speakers will include Cruz Reynoso, former California Supreme Court justice; Delores Huerta, co-founder and secretary-treasurer of the United Farm Workers; Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Mission Hills); Judge Stephen Reinhardt of U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; Justice Joyce Kennard of the state Supreme Court; and the Rev. James Lawson, pastor at Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles and founder of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice.

Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, who appointed Bird to the court in 1977 when he was governor of California, is also scheduled to speak.

Bird died Dec. 4 after a long fight with breast cancer. She was 63.