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Obituaries

Mar. 12, 2011

Isabella Horton Grant

1924 - 2011


By Pat Alston


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Isabella Horton Grant, a pioneering woman lawyer and judge who helped write California's no-fault divorce law 40 years ago, has died.


Grant, a former family law and probate lawyer who retired in 1997 as presiding judge of San Francisco Superior Court's probate department, lost a four-and-a-half-year battle with cancer Saturday at her San Francisco home. She was 86.


"She was a very...

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