he beat President Carter in 1980. Later career Hufstedler was considered to be a candidate for the Supreme Court if a vacancy had occurred under the Jimmy Carter presidency. In 1981, Hufstedler returned to private life, teaching and practicing law. She was a partner in the firm Hufstedler & Kaus, now merged into Morrison & Foerster. She taught across the country, including stints at the University of California at Irvine and Santa Cruz, the University of Iowa, the University of Vermont, Stanford Law School, and the University of Oregon. Personal life Hufstedler met her husband, Seth Hufstedler, at law school and they married in 1949. They had one child, Dr. Steve Hufstedler, and four grandchildren. On March 30, 2016, Hufstedler died in Glendale, California, from cerebrovascular disease at the age of 90. She is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale). Awards and honors Hufstedler served on boards of trustees, governing boards and visiting committees for numerous foundations, institutions, corporations and universities as follows: Honorary doctorate degrees She was the recipient of almost 20 honorary doctoral degrees from American universities. They include: The Claremont University Center. Columbia University. Georgetown University. Gonzaga University. Hood College. Mount Holyoke College. University of Michigan. University of New Mexico. Occidental College. University of the Pacific. University of Pennsylvania. Rutgers University. University of Southern California. Smith College. Syracuse University. Tufts University. Tulane University. University of Wyoming. Yale University. Awards Her awards include: The Order of the Coif. The Marshall-Wythe Medal (College of William and Mary). St. Thomas More Medal (Loyola Law School). Golden Plate Award American Academy of Achievement. Woman of the Year Award (Los Angeles Times). Woman of the Year Award (Ladies Home Journal). University of California at Los Angeles Medal. Herbert O. Harley Award (American Judicature Society). Earl Warren Medal (University of Judaism). Louis D. Brandeis Medal (University of Louisville). Shattuck-Price Memorial Award (Los Angeles County Bar Association). Stanford Law School Award of Merit. American Bar Association's 1995 Gold Medal. Margaret Brent Award (ABA Commission on Women in the Legal Profession). The Learned Hand Award. She was the first woman to receive the American Bar Association medal. Memberships and affiliations Hufstedler was the first woman on the Council of the American Law Institute. She was on the Board of Directors of Harman International Industries. She was the emeritus director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Salzburg Seminar. She