Michael L. Douglas is a former justice of the

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. He was appointed in 2004, and his term ended in 2019. When Douglas was appointed, he became the first

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in the

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. Douglas graduated from California State College, Long Beach in 1971 and

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in 1974. Douglas retired in January 2019.

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