by City of Berkeley, Commission on the Status of Women in 1995 Woman of the Year by the East Bay Lesbian/Gay Democratic Club in 1994 (Kolakowski was president of the East Bay Lesbian/Gay Democratic Club) Named an individual community grand marshal for San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride in June 2011 Named in October 2011 by Equality Forum as one of their 31 Icons of the LGBT History Month. Personal life Kolakowski married Cynthia Laird, news editor of the Bay Area Reporter, on June 16, 2008. Ron Dellums performed the ceremony. See also List of first women lawyers and judges in California List of LGBT jurists in the United States References External links Judicial campaign website on Archive.org 1961 births American women jurists California lawyers California state court judges Law in the San Francisco Bay Area LGBT judges LGBT Protestant clergy Living people Louisiana State University alumni Louisiana State University Law Center alumni Metropolitan Community Church clergy New College of Florida alumni Pacific School of Religion alumni People from Alameda County, California People from Queens, New York Stuyvesant High School alumni LGBT lawyers Transgender politicians Transgender women Tulane University alumni University of New Orleans alumni Superior court judges in the United States LGBT people from California LGBT people from New York (state)