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Loretta S. Whitney

University of Arizona Law,
class of 1935

State Bar of Arizona
member since 1935

Loretta Savage Whitney was born in Wisconsin on June 4, 1910. Her family moved to Arizona when she was two. Her family homesteaded a hundred and sixty acres out of Phoenix near Gila Bend. She attended St. Mary’s for both grammar and high school. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 1935.

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Interviewed by Pablo Jusem in 1991.

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