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Cruz Reynoso (born 2 May 1931) is a civil rights lawyer, professor emeritus of law, and the first Chicano Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1982–87). He also served on the California Third District Court of Appeal. In 1986, along with two other members of the California Supreme Court—Chief Justice Rose Bird and Associate Justice Joseph Grodin—Reynoso became one of only three State Supreme Court justices ever recalled and ousted by voters under California's judicial-retention election system. He served as vice-chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1993 to 2004. In 2000, Reynoso received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, for his efforts to address social inequities and his public service. ==Early life and education== Reynoso was born in Brea, California. He grew up as one of 11 children, and from age eight worked as an agricultural worker in orange groves. His father was a farmworker.〔 When Reynoso was seven, the family moved to a barrio outside of La Habra, California.〔 While there, he attended the Wilson Grammar School, a racially segregated grade school for children of Mexican descent.〔 His junior high school was integrated, as was Fullerton Union High School, from which he graduated.〔 The United States Postal Service refused to provide Rural Free Delivery service within the barrio, even though non-minority families living nearby received the service. Reynoso circulated a petition demanding service; the Postal Service responded to his petition and began providing mail delivery to the barrio. He also challenged the local school board about the Wilson School, after which the school was desegregated.〔 After high school, Reynoso attended Fullerton College, a community college, receiving an associate of arts degree in 1951. A dean from Pomona College offered him a scholarship if he applied and was admitted to that school.〔 He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Pomona College in 1953, after which he joined the U.S. Army, serving in the Counterintelligence Corps for two years. He was stationed in Washington, D.C., where his assignments included reviewing the House Un-American Activities Committee files on potential applicants for Federal jobs, a task he found distasteful.〔 He received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 1958.〔〔 Under a Ford Foundation fellowship, he studied constitutional law at the National University of Mexico in 1958–59.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cruz Reynoso」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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