{{Short description|American judge (1870–1939)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Warren Olney Jr. | image = Warren Olney, Jr.jpg | image_size = | caption = | office = Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California | term_start = March 1, 1919 | term_end = July 1921 | nominator = | appointer = Governor William Stephens | predecessor = M. C. Sloss | successor = Charles A. Shurtleff | birth_date = {{birth date|1870|10|15}} | birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1939|03|25|1870|10|15}} | death_place = Berkeley, California, U.S. | spouse = {{marriage|Mary M. McLean|1899}} | alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley (AB)<BR>Harvard University (AB)<BR>University of California, Hastings College of the Law (LLB) }} '''Warren Olney Jr.''' (October 15, 1870 – March 25, 1939) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from March 1, 1919, to July 1921.
==Early life and education==
Olney was the second of six children born to Mary Jane Craven (January 30, 1842 – 1928) and Warren Olney Sr. (March 11, 1841 – June 2, 1921), an attorney in San Francisco. Olney Sr. co-founded the Sierra Club in his law office with naturalist John Muir, and others, but was later expelled from the organization because he supported the flooding of Hetch Hetchy Valley to supply water to San Francisco. Olney Sr. was mayor of Oakland, California from 1903 to 1905.<ref>{{cite news|title=Candidates Raise Voices in Favor of Pure Water, Warren Olney, Nominee for Mayor, and Other Speakers Declare Before Municipal League Gathering Domination of the Contra Costa Company Must Cease|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1903-02-26/ed-1/seq-9/#date1=1878&index=4&date2=1924&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Olney+Warren&proxdistance=5&state=California&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=warren+olney&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|accessdate=June 30, 2017|work=The San Francisco Call|publisher=Library of Congress Historic Newspapers|date=February 26, 1903|page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Mayor Warren Olney Announces His Desire to See United City|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1903-05-20/ed-1/seq-9/#date1=1878&index=8&date2=1924&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Olney+OLNEY+WARREN+Warren&proxdistance=5&state=California&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=warren+olney&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|accessdate=June 30, 2017|work=The San Francisco Call|publisher=Library of Congress Historic Newspapers|date=May 20, 1903|page=9}}</ref>
Olney Jr. was educated in the public schools in Oakland.<ref name="bb">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ax0LAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22warren+olney+jr.%22&pg=PA453 History of the Bench and Bar of California]. Bates, Joseph Clement, ed. Bench and Bar Publishing Company, 1912. pg 453.</ref> In 1891, he was graduated with an A.B. at the University of California, Berkeley, where he played on the football team.<ref name="oral history"/> He then studied at Harvard for a postgraduate year, receiving an A.B. in 1892, and returned to San Francisco.<ref name="outlook">[https://books.google.com/books?id=HhA9AQAAIAAJ&dq=%22warren+olney+jr.%22&pg=PA36 "Two 'Square' Railroad Lawyers"], The California Outlook. Vol 12. March 30, 1912. p. 16. Retrieved June 29, 2017.</ref> In 1894, Olney received his LL.B. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law, and was admitted to the bar.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Hastings Community|journal=Hastings Alumni Publications|date=Fall 1992|volume=81|page=22|url=http://repository.uchastings.edu/alumni_mag/81|accessdate=August 23, 2017|publisher=Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association|location=San Francisco, CA}}</ref><ref name="nocal">[http://scocal.stanford.edu/justice/justice-warren-olney-jr-34144 Justice Warren Olney Jr.], Supreme Court of California Resources, Robert Crown Law Library, Stanford Law School. Retrieved June 29, 2017.</ref>
==Legal and judicial career== Olney entered into practice with his father in Olney & Olney, and then Olney, Pringle & Mannon. He also from 1895 to 1904 taught law classes at Hastings<ref>{{cite news|title=Slack's Two Assistants, The Trustees Have Appointed Olney and Busley to the Positions|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1895-08-31/ed-1/seq-16/#date1=1878&sort=relevance&date2=1924&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=19&words=Olney+Warren&proxdistance=5&state=California&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=warren+olney&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2|accessdate=June 30, 2017|work=San Francisco Call|publisher=Library of Congress Historic Newspapers|date=August 31, 1895|page=16|quote=Olney is the son of Warren Olney, a well-known attorney in this City. He is a recent graduate of the Hastings College and a student under Judge Slack.}}</ref> and when Berkeley opened its law school he lectured on evidence there from 1904 to 1907.<ref>[http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/californialawreview/vol27/iss4/4 "Warren Olney, Jr., 1870-1939"], 27 Cal. L. Rev. 423 (1939).</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Revere Those Who Have Gone, Students and Faculty to Hold a Solemn Service, Walter Olney Jr. to Deliver Eulogium on the Departed|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1903-02-26/ed-1/seq-9/#date1=1878&index=4&date2=1924&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Olney+Warren&proxdistance=5&state=California&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=warren+olney&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|accessdate=June 30, 2017|work=San Francisco Call|publisher=Library of Congress Historic Newspapers|date=February 26, 1903|page=9|quote=Warren Olney Jr., a graduate of the University of California with the class of 1891, one of the instructors of jurisprudence, and a practicing attorney in San Francisco.}}</ref>
In 1907, he joined the firm of Page, McCutchen, Knight and Olney, later known as McCutchen, Olney, and Willard (1913-1919).<ref name="outlook"/> His clients included Western Pacific Railroad.<ref>{{cite news|title=W.P. Re-Elects All of Board and Officers|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1912-10-23/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1878&index=13&date2=1924&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Olney+Warren&proxdistance=5&state=California&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=warren+olney&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|accessdate=June 30, 2017|work=San Francisco Call|publisher=Library of Congress Historic Newspapers|date=October 23, 1912|page=3|quote=The board of directors consists of...Warren Olney, Warren Olney Jr.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=E. L. Brown Succeeds C. H. Schlacks on Western Pacific; Jeffrey Retires|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1913-07-14/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1878&sort=date&date2=1924&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=5&words=Olney+Warren&proxdistance=5&state=California&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=warren+olney&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=39|accessdate=June 30, 2017|work=San Francisco Call|publisher=Library of Congress Historic Newspapers|date=July 14, 1913|page=1|quote=Warren Olney, general counsel of the Western Pacific...}}</ref> From 1911 to 1919, he was counsel for the regents of the University of California.<ref name="bancroft"/> Beginning July 1, 1932, he served as president of the alumni association for two years, and thus sat as a regent.<ref>Brower, Anne (September 11, 1976). [http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb400006jf;NAAN=13030&chunk.id=div00182&toc.id=div00177&toc.depth=1&brand=calisphere&anchor.id=p325 Interview with Warren Olney III]. CaliSphere. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved June 29, 2017.</ref><ref name="bancroft"/>
Olney was appointed Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court by Governor William Stephens, and served from March 1919 to July 1921.<ref name="nocal"/><ref>{{cite news|title=New Supreme Court Judge|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=CSCN19210610.2.27&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22warren+olney%2c+Jr.%22-------1|accessdate=June 30, 2017|work=Coast Side Comet|issue=13|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=June 10, 1921|page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Olney May Quit Supreme Bench|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MM19210604.2.10&srpos=14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22warren+olney%2c+Jr.%22-------1|accessdate=June 30, 2017|work=Madera Mercury|agency=Associated Press|issue=52|publisher=California Digital Newspapers Collection|date=June 4, 1921|page=1}}</ref> In November 1920, he was re-elected but left the court after a time to resume private practice with McCutchen, Olney, Mannon, and Greene (1921-1939)(later known as McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen and then Bingham McCutchen, until its collapse in 2014).<ref>{{cite news|title=Olney to Be Candidate This Fall|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19200413.2.186&srpos=3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22warren+olney%2c+Jr.%22-------1|accessdate=June 30, 2017|work=Los Angeles Herald|issue=140|publisher=California Digital Newspapers Collection|date=April 13, 1920|page=B7|quote=Justice Warren Olney jr., a member of the state supreme court...announces he will be a candidate this fall for the short term which expires in 1923.}}</ref>
In 1930 to 1932, he was a special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in antitrust litigation concerning the Radio Corporation of America.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Blaisdell|first1=Thomas C.|title=The Federal Trade Commission: An Experiment in the Control of Business|date=2003|publisher=The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.|isbn=1584778652|page=245|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N8dZkGO6i-AC&q=He+was+a+special+assistant+to+the+attorney-general+warren+olney&pg=PA245|accessdate=June 30, 2017}}</ref>
==Bar and civic activities== In 1917, Olney had charge of registration in California for the draft for World War I.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=B888AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22warren+olney+jr.%22&pg=PA159 Address of Justice Warren Olney Jr.]. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, California Bar Association (1920). pg 159. Retrieved June 29, 2017.</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Scene at Meeting of Officials for War Enrollment|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19170519.2.36&srpos=12&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22warren+olney%2c+Jr.%22-------1|accessdate=June 30, 2017|work=Los Angeles Herald|issue=171|publisher=California Digital Newspapers Collection|date=May 19, 1917|page=3}}</ref> He served the Bar Association of San Francisco as president from 1926 to 1927, as his father had from 1901 to 1902.<ref>{{cite web|title=BASF Past Presidents|url=https://www.sfbar.org/about/past_presidents.aspx|publisher=Bar Association of San Francisco|accessdate=June 29, 2017|archive-date=June 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621043642/http://www.sfbar.org/about/past_presidents.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="bb"/> From 1935 to 1937, he was a member of the U.S. Supreme Court's advisory committee on rules of civil procedure for U.S. District Courts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Report of the Advisory Committee on Rules for Civil Procedure|url=http://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/fr_import/CV04-1937.pdf|publisher=United States Courts|accessdate=June 29, 2017|page=IV|date=April 1937}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Photograph of Members of the United States Supreme Court Advisory Committee on rules of Civil Procedure|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/hec.39641/|publisher=Library of Congress|accessdate=June 29, 2017|date=November 1935}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 1899 he married Mary M. McLean (July 25, 1873 – August 12, 1965) of Alameda, California, who graduated from the University of California and taught at Stanford and Pomona College.<ref name="bancroft">{{cite journal|title=Shasta-Siskiyou Vacation Album|journal=Bancroftiana, an Occasional Publication of the Bancroft Library, University of California|date=January 1992|volume=103|page=1|url=http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/bancroftiana/ucb/text/bancroftiana_103.pdf|accessdate=June 30, 2017}}</ref> They had two sons and a daughter: John McLean Olney, Warren Olney III, and Constance S. Olney.<ref name="oral history"/>
The youngest son, Warren Olney III (February 25, 1904 – December 23, 1978), became an attorney and practiced in his father's law firm.<ref name="oral history">{{cite book|last1=Stein|first1=Miriam F.|last2=Fry|first2=Amelia R.|title=Law enforcement and judicial administration in the Earl Warren era : oral history transcript of interview with Warren Olney III|date=1981|publisher=Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California|location=Berkeley, CA|page=[https://archive.org/details/enforcementjudi00olnerich/page/1 1]|url=https://archive.org/details/enforcementjudi00olnerich|accessdate=June 30, 2017}}</ref> He was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower as an Assistant Attorney General to oversee the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice.<ref name="doj">{{cite web|title=Assistant Attorney Generals: Warren Olney III|date=3 February 2016|url=https://www.justice.gov/criminal/history/assistant-attorneys-general/warren-olney|publisher=U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division|accessdate=June 30, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Olney III|first1=Warren|title=A Governmental Lawyer Looks at Little Rock|journal=California Law Review|date=1957|volume=45|issue=4|pages=516–523|doi=10.2307/3478602|jstor=3478602|url=http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/californialawreview/vol45/iss4/4|accessdate=June 30, 2017|url-access=subscription}}</ref> From 1956 to 1966, Warren III was Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=J.Y.|title=Warren Olney, 74, Court Official, Dies|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/12/22/warren-olney-74-court-official-dies/001998f8-b4bb-4a33-b3c4-1df0587e89dc/|accessdate=June 30, 2017|newspaper=Washington Post|date=December 22, 1978}}</ref> He was appointed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, whom Warren III had served under in the California Attorney General's Office.<ref name="doj"/><ref name="oral history"/> His son, Warren Olney IV, is a broadcast journalist in Los Angeles.
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
==External links== * [http://www.oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4;titlesAZ=p;idT=UCb107026867 Portraits and photographs from the Olney family papers]. Online Archive of California. Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley. * [http://www.cschs.org/history/california-supreme-court-justices/warren-olney-jr/ Warren Olney, Jr.] California Supreme Court Historical Society. * [http://www.cschs.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CSCHS-Olney-Memorial.pdf In Memoriam: Warren Olney, Jr.], 13 Cal. Rpts. 2d 767-778 (1939). California Supreme Court Historical Society. * [http://www.courts.ca.gov/12523.htm Past & Present Justices]. California State Courts. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
==See also== * List of justices of the Supreme Court of California
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