page_title: George Deukmejian
section_title: Post-governorship
hierarchical_section_title: George Deukmejian / Post-governorship
caption_attribution_description: English: Jerry Brown (left), Gray Davis (center) and George Deukmejian (right) on September 2, 2010
context_page_description: Courken George Deukmejian Jr.;
  was an Armenian American politician from the Republican Party who was the 35th Governor of California from 1983 to 1991 and Attorney General of California from 1979 to 1983.
context_section_description: Deukmejian was a partner in the law firm of Sidley & Austin from 1991 until 2000 when he retired. He reentered public life by serving on special committees, including one to reform the California penal system, and a charter-reform committee in his hometown of Long Beach. He oversaw a revamping of the UCLA Willed Body Program after a scandal involving the sale of human body parts donated for science. In 2013, a courthouse in Long Beach was named in his honor. Deukmejian received an honorary doctor of laws degree from California State University, Long Beach, in 2008, because of his support for education, state law, and Long Beach.
caption: Jerry Brown (left), Gray Davis (center) and Deukmejian (right) in September 2010
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