This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McKEEHAN, CAMPOS, ROBINSON, EARL, NOONAN Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2V.2ADI/247 Message Board Post: Judith McKeehan Judith ''Judy'' Robinson Campos McKeehan, a homemaker who retired from the practice of law in 1989, died in her Danville home with her family present on Jan. 18, 2000. She died of Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 53. Born on Oct. 4, 1946, in New Haven, Conn., she grew up primarily in Woodland. She later lived in Davis and Sacramento, before moving to Danville in 1986. After earning her bachelor's degree in anthropology in 1969 and a law degree in 1974 from UC Davis, she began a distinguished legal career that started at the California Court of Appeal, 3rd Appellate District, Sacramento, where her work earned the praise and respect of the justices for whom she worked, particularly the then-Presiding Justice Robert Pulia. She left the Court of Appeal in 1977 to take a position as an associate at the law firm of Dahl, Hefner, Stark and Marois. In 1980, she was elected president of the Sacramento Young Lawyers' Association. Very much a pioneer in her profession, in 1984 she became the first woman to be elected a partner at Hefner, Stark and Marois. That same year, she also became the first woman lawyer to be elected president of the Sacramento County Bar Association, and won the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce's award for a Woman in a Non-Traditional Role in Business. However, despite these firsts, she stated in a Sacramento Union news story, ''I've tried to emphasize being a lawyer first and a woman second.'' Later, she became a member of the Board of Governors of the California State Bar Association. She also was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the District Court for both the Eastern and Northern districts of California. She retired from the practice of law in 1989 to devote her full time to raising her newborn daughter Kelly. She was an accomplished athlete and artist. She was a champion diver at Woodland High School, and later excelled at tennis, golf, snow skiing and water skiing. In 1979, she obtained her pilot's license. An avid painter, in her 20s she painted several remarkable van Gogh copies that were highly prized by family and friends. Later, she took up clay sculpture, specializing in life-like busts of family and friends. She played tournament bridge, and spent much of her spare time in her garden, which was the subject of an article in her local newspaper. She is survived by her husband, James McKeehan of Danville; son, Paul Campos of Orinda; daughter, Kelly McKeehan of Danville; parents, Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Robinson of Woodland; three sisters, Robin Martha (Robinson) Earl of Nashville, Tenn., and her husband Gary, Kathy Robinson of Davis and Kim (Robinson) Noonan of Danville and her husband Jim Noonan; and five nieces. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Wilson and Kratzer Chapel of San Ramon Valley, 825 Hartz Way, Danville. Following the service, a reception will be held at the McKeehan residence at 36 Goldstone Court, Danville. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be made to the Hospice of Contra Costa County, 2051 Harrison St., Concord, CA, 94520; or to the Leukemia Society of America, North California Chapter, 832 Folsom, ninth floor, San Francisco, CA, 94107. (Obituary from the "The Davis Enterprise," for the week of Jan. 16, 2000, (Yolo County). Submitted with the permission of the "The Davis Enterprise," 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616, <http://www.davisenterprise.com/>. Please note: I am not related to the family listed above, and I do not have any further information on this family.)