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Roger John Traynor (February 12 1900 – May 14 1983) served as the 23rd Chief Justice of California from 1964 to 1970 and as an Associate Justice from 1940 to 1964. A nationally respected jurist Traynor’s 30-year career as California’s 77th Justice coincided with tremendous demographic social and governmental growth in California and in the United States of America and was marked by a belief (in the words of his biographer G.