The State - News from Dec. 5, 1988

Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) says he will not support San Francisco attorney Vaughn Walker for the federal bench because of Walker’s membership in the all-male Olympian Club. Sen. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.), who has announced his intention to resubmit Walker’s name for a U.S. District Court vacancy in San Francisco, said through an aide that Cranston’s opposition is likely to kill the nomination. The aide, Linda Royster, said Wilson will try to persuade Cranston to change his mind. She added: “Mr. Walker made it quite clear that he has worked very hard to get the club to revise its rules to admit women and to recruit more minority membership.” Walker, 44, was first named to the bench last year, but the nomination died without a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee.