Oral history interview with David E. Pesonen, 1992. Transcript. / by Ann Lage, Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives.

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Oral history interview with David E. Pesonen, 1992. Transcript. / by Ann Lage, Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives.

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Mr. Pesonen discusses the campaign for the Nuclear Safeguards Initiative in 1976, including the participation of the citizen's group, Creative Initiative, and his work on the State Board of Forestry under chair Henry Vaux. He outlines his work as director of the Dept. of Forestry in reorganizing the department, working with Secretary for Resources Huey Johnson, and managing resources and fire fighting programs. He describes his "midnight" appointment to the Contra Costa Superior Court by Jerry Brown in 1985 and the political difficulties of retaining a judgeship in a county where he had no political base.

165 p. of typescript.

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Pesonen, David E., 1934-

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David E. Pesonen (b. 1934) was an environmental activist, lawyer, and judge in the San Francisco Bay Area. After graduating from Boalt Hall School of Law, at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1968, he began work at a San Francisco law firm and became involved in the anti-nuclear movement. He was elected chairman of Californians for Nuclear Safeguards, and was one of the authors of Proposition 15, an unsuccessful 1976 ballot initiative to restrict nuclear power production in California. ...

Lage, Ann.

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State Government Oral History Program (Calif.)

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Administrative History Documentation of California state government with the use of oral history techniques began in 1969 with the Earl Warren Era Oral History Project. It was initiated by the Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library and "centered on key developments in politics and government administration at the state and county level, innovations in criminal justice, public health, and social welfare from 1928-1953." ...