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New article name Council Julian Goodell known as ""C.J. Goodell"" (1885-1967) was a California attorney and jurist. The youngest of five children of Council Goodell (1842-1891) who came from Springfield, Maine and his wife Catherine McNeeve, an Irish-American. Justice Goodell was a practicing Roman Catholic. His father died when he was six, and Goodell worked as a clerk by day while at night attending the YMCA Evening Law College (now Golden Gate University School of Law) where he recieved his LL.B in September 1908; he passed the bar examination the following November.

Following a career in private practice, he was elected to the San Francisco Superior Court bench in 1928. His tenure on the court included several terms as a pro tem Justice on the District Court of Appeal as well as service as presiding judge of the Superior Court bench. In January 1945 Governor Earl Warren appointed Goodell an Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, First District, Division Two. He would hold office until December 31, 1953, when he retired.

He died in Marin County in 1967 and was survived by his second wife, a son, and grandchildren. The Morning Call Mar. 8, 1891 col. 4