Ramon Cisneros

Off the Court

CSU Bakersfield alumni, as Ramon Cisneros tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• Kathleen O'Neal Geararchaeologist and novelist

  Kathleen O'Neal Gear got her bachelor's at Bakersfield, worked as a government archaeologist and historian in Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska, then wrote novels good enough to win a lifetime achievement award in Western literature in twenty twenty one. That's digging in.

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• Jennifer L. ThurstonU.S. District Court judge

  Jennifer Thurston, class of eighty nine, is a United States District Court judge for the Eastern District of California. A Roadrunner on the federal bench, and we're proud of it.

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• Kevin McCarthy55th Speaker of the House

  Kevin McCarthy has two degrees from Bakersfield, one of them in marketing. He needed fifteen ballots to become Speaker, then became the first Speaker the House ever removed. Tough sell, even for a marketing man.

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• Dushyant ChautalaIndian politician, Member of Parliament

  Here's one you might not know. Dushyant Chautala took a business degree from Bakersfield and went on to be a Member of Parliament in India from twenty fourteen to twenty nineteen. Roadrunners travel.

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