Janet Meik Wright

Janet Leigh Meik Wright (born November 11, 1946) is an American legal scholar who has taught community property, estate planning and non-profit institutions at the University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of California, Davis.

For the actress, see Janet Wright.
Janet Meik Wright
Born
Janet Leigh Meik

(1946-11-11) November 11, 1946[1]
Missoula, Montana, U.S.[1]
NationalityUnited States
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Barbara (B.A)
University of Southern California Law School (J.D.)
OccupationLaw professor, attorney
Known forExpert on estate planning, community property, and closely held business transactions
Spouse(s)
1) Richard K. Sigler
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(m. 1968; div. 1972)​
2) Jonathan T. Wright
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(m. 1974)​

Biography

Wright was born in Missoula, Montana, raised in Thompson Falls, and studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she competed in debate and received a B.A. in 1968.[2][3][4][5] She attended the University of Southern California School of Law, serving as editor-in-chief of the Southern California Law Review, and graduating Order of the Coif with a J.D. in 1971.[6][7] After law school, she clerked for Justice Raymond E. Peters of the California Supreme Court, and then for Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court William O. Douglas from 1972 to 1973.[8][9][10] She clerked during the same term for Douglas as Carol S. Bruch, and was among the first six female law clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court.[11][12][13][14] Following her clerkships, she returned to San Francisco and practiced law at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk.[15][16]

In 1975, she joined the law school faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, as Acting Law Professor.[17] In 1976, she left to become an assistant professor of law at USC Law School.[18] In 1983, she was a visiting professor at the UC Davis Law School.[17] She was active in State Bar committees, serving in 1987 on the Executive Committee of the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section that worked with the California Law Revision Commission on statutory reforms.[19][20]

Currently, she practices at her own law firm in Fresno, California, where she specializes in estate planning, taxation, and general business transactions, with an emphasis on planning for closely held businesses and charitable planning.[21][22][23]

Personal life

In 1968, she married Richard K. Sigler in Tulare, California. In 1972, the couple divorced. In 1974, she remarried to Jonathan T. Wright, whom she had met while clerking in Washington, D.C.[9][24]

See also
  • List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

References
  1. Hubbell, Martindale (March 2001). Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory: California (A-R, Volume 2, 2001). Martindale-Hubbell. ISBN 9781561604395.
  2. "Blue Bird Group Elects Officers". The Sanders County Independent-Ledger. Montana Historic Newspaper Collection. December 8, 1955. p. 7. Retrieved June 23, 2019. Blue Bird members are: Janet Meik
  3. Hamill, Stuart (October 19, 1961). "Rural Electric Coops, Conventioning Here, Told to Seek Business". Daily Inter Lake (Kalispell, Montana). p. 1. Photo: Janet Meik, in her presentation of her first place demonstration. Accessed via Ancestry.com
  4. "Correction". El Gaucho, UC Santa Barbara Student Newspaper. 46 (42): 7. December 3, 1965. Retrieved June 23, 2019. Janet Meik placed as a semi-finalist in junior women's oratory
  5. Hickman, Shirley (February 11, 2003). "School Talk: Club continues giving youth a great experience". The Porterville Recorder. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
  6. "Masthead, Editorial Board". USC Law Review. 44 (2). 1970–71. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
  7. "USC Judicial Clerkship Handbook" (PDF). Career Services Office, USC Law School. 2013–2014. p. Appendix B. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
  8. Douglas, William O. (1980). The Court years, 1939–1975: the autobiography of William O. Douglas. New York: Random House. p. 416. ISBN 9780394492407. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
  9. Woodward, Bob; Armstrong, Scott (2011). The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781439126349. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
  10. Peppers, Todd C.; Ward, Artemus (2012). In Chambers: Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. p. Footnote 131. ISBN 9780813932651.
  11. Ward, Artemus; Weiden, David L. (2007). Sorcerers' Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court. New York: NYU Press. p. 90. ISBN 9780814794203. Retrieved June 23, 2019. Table 2.1.1, First Female Law Clerks in the U.S. Supreme Court
  12. Szmer, John J.; Kaheny, Erin B.; Christensen, Robert K. (2014). "Taking a Dip in the Supreme Court Clerk Pool: Gender-Based Discrepancies in Clerk Selection". Marquette Law Review. 98: 261, 268. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
  13. "Douglas Appoints 2 Women Law Clerks". San Bernardino Sun. California Digital Newspaper Collection. New York Times News Service. January 4, 1972. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  14. Small, Marshall L. "William O. Douglas Remembered (A Collective Memory of WOD'S Law Clerks)". U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  15. California Legal Directory. Legal Directories Publishing Company. 1974. p. 702. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
  16. California Legal Directory. Legal Directories Publishing Company. 1975. p. 761. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
  17. Kay, Herma Hill (2002). "UC's Women Law Faculty". U.C. Davis L. Rev. 36: 331, 347, 368. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  18. "Trojan Guild Installation". Tustin News. May 24, 1979. p. 12. Retrieved June 23, 2019. Dr. Janet Wright, Assistant Professor of Law at USC, speaking on 'Women in the Law.'
  19. "Exhibit 5, Memo 87-82, Letter to California Law Commission with comments on proposed Abatements and Accounts language" (PDF). California Law Revision Commission. September 9, 1987. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  20. "Letter of Kathryn A. Ballsun to James Quillinan regarding Law Revision Commission Memorandum 87-7, Marital Deduction" (PDF). California Law Revision Commission. February 13, 1987. p. 16. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  21. "The 37th Annual UCLA/CEB Estate Planning Institute" (PDF). Continuing Education of the California Bar. May 1, 2015. p. vii. Retrieved June 23, 2019. Dean’s Advisory Board Members: Janet L. Wright
  22. "The 41st Annual UCLA/CEB Estate Planning Institute" (PDF). Continuing Education of the California Bar. May 3–4, 2019. p. 5. Retrieved June 23, 2019. Dean’s Advisory Board Members: Janet L. Wright
  23. "MCLE thank you to speakers: Limited Liability Company CLE, Janet L. Wright, faculty" (PDF). Inter Alia newsletter of San Joaquin College of Law. February 1996. p. 8. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  24. "News". New Times. 3: 28. 1974. Retrieved June 22, 2019. the case of Johnny Wright, a black laborer, who last year was dating one of William O. Douglas' white law clerks
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