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OAKLAND, Calif. — Around 8:07 a.m. PT on Monday, an older bespectacled woman with curly graying hair, wearing a leather jacket and carrying a beige tote bag and black purse, crossed Jefferson Street in downtown Oakland on a cold, rainy morning.
The woman walked up two flights of marble steps, entered the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse and then slipped quietly into an employee entrance within the building’s main lobby.
That woman, California judge Claudia Wilken, holds decision-making power that stands to alter the future of college athletics.