(LAT) Barbara J. Miller, 58 - judge who sided with UC Berkeley in building plans that prompted a tree-sitting protest
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http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings9-2009nov09,0,4591172.story
Barbara J. Miller, judge who sided with UC Berkeley in building plans
that prompted a tree-sitting protest, dies at 58.
November 8, 2009
Barbara J. Miller
Judge's ruling led to end of tree-sitting
Barbara J. Miller, 58, an Alameda County Superior Court judge who
ruled in favor of UC Berkeley in a dispute over a proposed athletic
facility that was the focus of a tree-sitting protest, was found dead
Friday in her Oakland home, police said.
The cause of death has not been determined, Oakland police said.
Miller ruled in June 2008 that the university had satisfied
environmental and seismic issues over the project, which was part of a
plan to renovate Memorial Stadium, home of the school's football team
and built on an earthquake fault.
Building the athletic facility next to the stadium required cutting
down an old oak grove, prompting activists in late 2006 to take up
perches in the treetops and refuse to budge. The standoff finally
ended in September 2008.
Miller was born June 12, 1951, in Whitefish Bay, Wis. She earned a law
degree from the University of San Francisco and was named a Superior
Court commissioner in 1987. She was elected to the Superior Court in
1996 and was presiding judge in 2004 and 2005.
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