Early Years
Aiken was born in Salem, Oregon, on December 29, 1951. In 1974, she graduated from the University of Oregon in Eugene with a bachelors of science degree, and then from Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1976 with a masters degree. Aiken returned to Oregon and graduated with a juris doctorate degree in 1979 from the University of Oregon School of Law. After law school she worked as a law clerk for judge Edwin Allen of the Lane County Circuit Court from 1979 to 1980.
She entered private legal practice in 1980 and remained there until 1982. In 1982, Aiken worked as a fundraiser and field staffer for Ted Kulongoski's unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Oregon in 1982, and then worked as the chief clerk of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1982 to 1983. Aiken returned to private practice that year and remained there until she became a district judge in Lane County in 1988. Based in Eugene, she then became an Oregon circuit court judge in 1992 for Lane County, remaining on the bench until 1997.
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“If there is a price to pay for the privilege of spending the early years of child rearing in the driver’s seat, it is our reluctance, our inability, to tolerate being demoted to the backseat. Spurred by our success in programming our children during the preschool years, we may find it difficult to forgo in later states the level of control that once afforded us so much satisfaction.”
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