1. Betty Cantrell Roberts was an American politician and judge from the US state of Oregon.
28 Facts About Betty Roberts
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Betty Roberts was the 83rd justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.
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Betty Roberts was the first woman to serve on the Oregon Supreme Court, and had been the first woman on the Oregon Court of Appeals.
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Betty Roberts was married three times, including to Frank L Roberts and Keith Skelton, both of whom she would serve with in the Oregon Legislative Assembly.
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Betty Roberts was a private mediator and senior judge until her death due to pulmonary fibrosis.
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Betty Roberts Cantrell was born in Arkansas City, Kansas, on February 5,1923.
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In Texas, Betty Roberts was raised poor during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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Betty Roberts graduated from high school and then attended Texas Wesleyan College in Ft.
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Betty Roberts enrolled at Eastern Oregon College in La Grande for a single year in 1955.
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From 1958 to 1967, Betty Roberts taught high school in the Portland metropolitan area at Reynolds High School, Centennial High School, and David Douglas High School before moving on to teach business law and political science at Mt.
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Betty Roberts became a member of the Lynch Elementary School District school board, serving from 1960 to 1966.
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Betty Roberts married Frank L Roberts in 1960, adopting his name and retaining it after their divorce in 1965.
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Betty Roberts went on to earn a master's degree in political science from the University of Oregon in 1962.
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Betty Roberts then attended Northwestern School of Law in Portland, where she graduated in 1966 with her Juris Doctor.
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Betty Roberts earned her degree while attending evening classes at the school, much like she earned her early degrees.
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Betty Roberts threatened legal action, and eventually was no longer referred to as Mrs Betty Skelton.
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In 1972, Betty Roberts was re-elected to the Senate for another four-year term.
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In 1974, Roberts ran for governor of Oregon, but lost in the Democratic primary to Robert W Straub.
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Betty Roberts chaired Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign in Oregon in 1976.
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Betty Roberts was the first woman on that court, as well as the first on any appellate court in Oregon.
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Betty Roberts was appointed to replace the retiring Justice Thomas Tongue, becoming the first woman on the Supreme Court.
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Betty Roberts left in part due to the heavy workload of the job, in part due to the daily commute between her home in Portland and the Oregon Supreme Court Building in Salem, partly due to the stress of the job, and in part because her husband was retiring and asked her to travel with him.
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In 1986, Oregon's Mary Leonard Law Society for women attorneys gave Betty Roberts their Distinguished Service Award, and the following year the Oregon State Bar Association granted her an Award of Merit, with the Oregon American Civil Liberties Union awarding her a Civil Liberties Award.
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Betty Roberts helped organize opposition in Oregon to Robert Bork's US Supreme Court nomination.
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Betty Roberts served on the state's Commission on Higher Education in the late 1980s.
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In 1992, Betty Roberts was given the award bearing her name from the Oregon Women Lawyers.
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Betty Roberts earned the E B MacNaughton Civil Liberties Award from the ACLU in 2004.
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Betty Roberts died in her Portland home of pulmonary fibrosis on June 25,2011.