Background
Farley, Barbara Suzanne was born on December 13, 1949 in Salt Lake City. Daughter of Ross Edward Farley and Barbara Ann (Edwards) Farley Swanson.
Farley, Barbara Suzanne was born on December 13, 1949 in Salt Lake City. Daughter of Ross Edward Farley and Barbara Ann (Edwards) Farley Swanson.
Mills College (Bachelor of Arts" with honors, 1972). Hastings College of Law, University of California (Juris Doctor, 1976). Recipient, Editorial Scholarship Award.
Managing Editor, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, 1976.
Bar: California 1976. Extern law clerk to justice California Supreme Court, San Francisco, 1975. Associate Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, 1976-1978, Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, San Francisco, 1978-1980, Goldstein & Phillips, San Francisco, 1980-1984.
Partner, head litigation, Rosen, Wachtell & Gilbert, San Francisco, 1984-1989.
Of counsel Lempres& Wulfsberg, Oakland, California, 1989. Arbitrator United States District Court (northern district) California, San Francisco, 1981, California Superior Court, San Francisco, 1984-1989.
Judge pro tem San Francisco Municipal Court, 1983. Probation monitor California State Bar, 1990.
Speaker National Business Institute Estate Administration.
Member American Trial Lawyers Association, San Francisco Bar Association, California.
Married Arthur Hoffman Ferris, April. Children: Barbara Whitney, Taylor Edwards.