U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, who overturned California’s ban on same-sex marriage, plans to leave after more than two decades on the bench, officials say. A press officer for the federal courts in San Francisco said Walker, 66, plans to return to the private sector, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. Walker was nominated as a judge by President Ronald Reagan and then again by President George H.W. Bush. His original nomination was stalled because he was perceived as anti-homosexual for representing the U.S. Olympic Committee in litigation against the “Gay Olympics,” the Times said.

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