Solano County Law Library

05/20/2026

The CA State Library now offers online subject guides through the LibGuides platform! 🎉

Additional guides will continue to be added periodically.

Explore the subject guides at https://libraryca.libguides.com/

05/11/2026

: Did you know that, in 2000, the Honorable Garry Ichikawa became Solano County's first Asian American judge? (Courtesy of Solano County Library's Digital Microfilm Collection)

05/05/2026

: Did you know that Claro L. Mamaril became Solano County's first Filipino lawyer in 1980? (Courtesy of Solano County Library's Digital Microfilm Collection)

03/25/2026

Women's History Month: In 1982, Krisida W. Jones became the first woman and first African American to work as a Deputy City Attorney for Vallejo's City Attorney's Office (discovered in Solano County Library's Digital Microfilm Collection).

03/11/2026

Women’s History Month: In 1973, Mary Ann Winters became the first female President of the Solano County Bar Association. Another gem uncovered in Solano County Library’s Digital Microfilm Collection at https://tinyurl.com/36kttmua!

03/04/2026

Stop by FCC to view Solano County Law Library’s history display by Library Associate Aaron Winter. Examine a piece by Law Librarian Jonathan Watson, a reproduction of the 1891 ordinance that established us, antique books from our collection, and news clippings from Solano County Library’s Digital Microfilm Collection.

03/03/2026

Women’s History Month: In a 2017 blog posting, I theorized that Marian Randall (née Leachman) was Solano County’s first female attorney: https://tinyurl.com/yh78d2zu. I was able to confirm that she was indeed the first thanks to Solano County Library’s Digital Microfilm Collection at https://tinyurl.com/36kttmua:

02/19/2026

Did you know that Solano County has a collection of digital microfilm? Find gems such as this pictured 1985 article about Solano County Law Library at https://solanolibrary.com/catalog/digital-microfilm/.

02/18/2026

Did you know that the late documentarian Frederick Wiseman earned a law degree from Yale University and worked as a law school professor before embarking on a filmmaking career?

Frederick Wiseman, the celebrated director of “Titicut Follies” and dozens of other documentaries whose in-depth, unadorned movies comprised a unique and revelatory history of American institutions, died Monday at age 96.

02/10/2026

Stanley J. Kunitz, editor of the Wilson Bulletin, called it the “The Spectre at Richmond” —but the racial discrimination at the 1936 ALA Annual Conference was no ghostly apparition.

The conference was held in Richmond, Virginia, a city with Jim Crow-era racial segregation laws. While ALA itself had no segregation or discriminatory policies, up until 1936 it had not established any ruling against holding a conference in a segregated city where members would be subject to discrimination. Thus, “the Spectre” marched into the halls of the hotels and auditoriums, reminding all librarians present that there was still work to be done.

The Richmond Conference was attended by more than 2,800 people from May 11-16, 1936. About 25 Black librarians attended.

Read more about the 1936 conference and the movement for change that followed: https://bit.ly/3NNV42S