Homer R. Spence

Homer Robert Spence (1891-1973) was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1945-1960) and a Justice of the District Court of Appeal, First District (1930-1945). Spence was one of three Justices joining in dissent from the holding in Perez v. Sharp, in which the court held by a vote of 4 to 3 that interracial bans on marriage violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and therefore were illegal in California.