Simon Marootian (1923 - 1980) was a political activist and a Superior Court Judge of Fresno County. He became the first Superior Court Judge of Fresno County of Armenian descent.
Life and career
Simon Marootian served as Supreme Court Judge of Fresno county from 1975 to 1980. He was also a local and statewide Democratic Party political activist. He was the chairman of the Fresno County Democratic Central Committee. In 1974 he became the Co-Chairman of Edmund Pat Brown campaign to become governor of California. He was also the chairman of the parish council of the St. Gregory Apostolic Church in Fowler, California.
He died in 1980 at the age of fifty-seven.
References
- "Simon Marootian". Ararat. 18. Armenian General Benevolent Union: 105. 1977. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- Clough, Charles W.; et al. (1900). Fresno County in the 20th century : from 1900 to the 1980s : an all new history (1st ed.). Fresno, Calif.: Panorama West Books. ISBN 9780914330974.
- Armenian Assembly of America (1987). Armenians in America: celebrating the first century. Armenian Assembly of America. p. 43. ISBN 9780925428028. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- ^ Kouymjian], Berge Bulbulian. [With pref. by Dickran (2001). The Fresno Armenians : history of a diaspora community (1. ed., 2. print. ed.). Sanger, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. pp. 163–164. ISBN 188499539X. Retrieved 10 March 2013.