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Marin Independent Journal
Tuesday, November 12, 1985
Section A page 4
JANET AITKEN
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Belvedere for Janet Aitken of Belvedere, a former San Francisco Municipal Court judge and noted attorney.
Miss Aitken, 68, died unexpectedly Friday at Marin General Hospital of a heart attack.
She was a native of San Francisco and attended Lowell High School. She moved to Belvedere about 10 years ago.
Miss Aitken graduated from the University of California in Berkeley and received her law degree in 1942 from the Hastings School of Law in San Francisco.
She served in the Navy during World War II, retiring as a lieutenant in 1946.
Miss Aitken began her law career with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and joined the staff of San Francisco District Attorney Thomas Lynch in 1947.
In 1967 she was appointed to the Municipal Court bench in San Francisco.
She resigned from the bench to become an assistant U.S. attorney in San Francisco and eventually re-entered private practice in the late 1970s.
She retired in 1981.
Miss Aitken was a member of the State Bar of California, the Queen’s Bench and the League of Women Voters. She served as president of the Camp Fire Girls Council of San Francisco.
The San Francisco Examiner chose Miss Aitken as one of the city’s outstanding women in 1968.
Miss Aitken was an avid sailor and belonged to the San Francisco Yacht Club and the Belvedere Lagoon Sailing Society.
She also worked as an arbitrator for the city of Belvedere and volunteered at the California Academy of Sciences and the California Marine Mammal Center at Fort Cronkhite.
She is survived by her mother, Sally Curtis of Mill Valley; and her brother, Frank Aitken of San Rafael.
A reception in Whitaker Hall at the church will follow the service.
The family prefers memorial gifts to the California Academy of Sciences and the California Marine Mammal Center.
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