THE QUICK BIO
June Baldwin originally envisioned a public-service legal career reforming the nation’s prison system, but instead the 1975 Harvard Law School graduate would make her mark in the first generation of African-American Hollywood executives. Born in Philadelphia, Baldwin majored in psychology at Stanford and after law school spent a year in Chicago clerking for Judge Luther Swygert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which in the mid-1970s was thick in the debate over public-school desegregation and busing. Swygert “was one of two liberals on the Seventh back then. Until this job (at KCET), I consider my work there my most positive legal experience,” Baldwin said.
