Warren Olney Jr.

Warren Olney Jr. (October 15, 1870 – March 25, 1939) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from March 1, 1919, to July 1921. Early life and education Olney was the second of six children born to Mary Jane Craven (January 30, 1842 – 1928) and Warren Olney Sr. (March 11, 1841 – June 2, 1921), an attorney in San Francisco. Olney Sr. co-founded the Sierra Club in his law office with naturalist John Muir, and others, but was later expelled from the organization because he supported the flooding of Hetch Hetchy Valley to supply water to San Francisco. Olney Sr. was mayor of Oakland, California from 1903 to 1905. Olney Jr. was educated in the public schools in Oakland. In 1891, he was graduated with an A.B. at the University of California, Berkeley, where he played on the football team. He then studied at Harvard for a postgraduate year, receiving an A.B. in 1892, and returned to San Francisco. In 1894, Olney received his LL.B. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law, and was admitted to the bar.