Janet Meik Wright Explained

Janet Meik Wright
Known For:Expert on estate planning, community property, and closely held business transactions
Birth Name:Janet Leigh Meik
Birth Date:11 November 1946[1]
Birth Place:Missoula, Montana, U.S.
Occupation:Law professor, attorney
Alma Mater:University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A)
University of Southern California Law School (J.D.)
Nationality:American

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.

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]

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Notes and References

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