Background
Spaeth, Joseph Louis was born on February 20, 1940 in Buffalo. Son of Joseph L. and Carolyn M. (Deibel) Spaeth.
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Joseph Louis Spaeth
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AB, Hamilton College, l96l; Juris Doctor, State University of New York, Buffalo, l969.
Career
Staff accountant, Arthur Young & Company, San Francisco, l970-72;
attorney, San Francisco Office Public Defender, l973-8l;
head trial attorney, supervisor misdemeanor and felony attorneys, San Francisco Office Public Defender, 1981-1983;
managing attorney juvenile division, San Francisco Office Public Defender, l983-. Instructor criminal procedure Lincoln U. Law School, San Francisco, 1987, 88. Member Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Juvenile Court Law, 1988-1993.
Member Judicial Council Family and Juvenile Standing Advisory Committee, since 1993. Lecturer on juvenile law to legal associations, also National Council Juvenile and Family Court Judges, California Center for Judicial Edition and Research.
Achievements
Membership
Member technical advising committee San Francisco Department Social Superior vena cava syndrome. Chairman AB90 Youth Superior vena cava syndrome Task Force, San Francisco, 1989-1992. Member San Francisco Mayor's Task Force on Dependent Children, 1987-1989.
Member out-of-home care task force-populations working committee Health and Welfare Agency, San Francisco, 1987-1988. Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1961-1966. Member State Bar California (commission on juvenile justice since 1988, vice-chair 1990, chair since 1991), California Public Defenders Association (representative chief victim witness judicial advising committee 1987-1988, select commission on children and youth task force 1987-1988, board directors since 1989), San Francisco Bar Association, San Francisco Child Abuse Council, Olympic Club.
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Married Sparkie Weisberger, February l8, l984.
