Shirley Mount Hufstedler

Hufstedler, Shirley Mount (1925– ), U.S. jurist and first secretary of education (1979–81), appointed by President Jimmy Carter. Hufstedler was a county and state judge in California (1961–68) and was appointed a federal judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco (1968–79) by President Lyndon B. Johnson, at which time she became the nation's highest ranking female judge.