Editing Warren Christopher (section)

==Professional work and achievements==
Christopher's professional activities included service as president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, 1974–1975; chairman of the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary of the [[American Bar Association]], 1975–1976; member of the board of governors of the [[State Bar of California]] 1975–1976; and special counsel to California governor [[Pat Brown|Edmund G. Brown]] in 1959.

Christopher's civic activities included the following: member and president of the board of trustees of [[Stanford University]]; chairman, [[Carnegie Corporation]] of New York board of trustees; director and vice chairman, [[Council on Foreign Relations]]; director, [[Trilateral Commission]], [[Bilderberg Group]], [[World Affairs Councils of America|Los Angeles World Affairs Council]]; vice chairman of the Governor's Commission on the [[Watts riots]] (The McCone Commission) in 1965–1966; president, Coordinating Council for Higher Education in the State of California; Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=Warren Christopher|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/warren-christopher|access-date=2021-12-09|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en}}</ref> member of the [[American Philosophical Society]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Warren+Christopher&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-12-09|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> and chairman emeritus, [[Pacific Council on International Policy]].

In 1981, Christopher received the U.S. Senator John Heinz Award for Greatest Public Service by an Elected or Appointed Official, an award given out annually by [[Jefferson Awards for Public Service|Jefferson Awards]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national|title=National - Jefferson Awards Foundation|access-date=2013-08-05|archive-date=2010-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124043935/http://jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1991, Christopher served as chairman of the Independent Commission on the [[Los Angeles Police Department]], which came to be known as the [[Christopher Commission]]. The Commission proposed significant reforms of the [[Los Angeles Police Department]] in the aftermath of the [[Rodney King]] incident (see [[1992 Los Angeles riots]]), which were approved overwhelmingly at the ballot box. In 1992, Christopher headed the [[1992 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection|vice presidential search]] for [[Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign|Governor Bill Clinton's presidential campaign]] and served as the Director of [[Presidential transition of Bill Clinton|his presidential Transition]].<ref name="SteinB">{{cite news|last1=Steinberg|first1=Mark|title=A Goodbye to Warren Christopher|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-steinberg/a-goodbye-to-warren-christopher_b_838051.html|access-date=18 April 2017|work=The Huffington Post}}</ref>