Produced by Eric Jansen and Kendra Klang

Other pieces by Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco

Summary: California Supreme Court Associate Justice Kelli Evans, the first out lesbian on the state's high court, was raised by her grandmother in public housing. She buried her U.C. Davis law degree original with her grandmother because of her grandma's "deliberate, intentional actions to make sure we had opportunities that she was denied.”