Roger Carrick memorial draws a powerful group

Friends of the environmental attorney Roger Carrick held a well-attended life celebration last night at Para Los Niños, the Downtown childrens' center where he was on the board and the former chairman. Carrick was 60 and died Nov. 12. I'm told that former governor Gray Davis and journalist E.J. Dionne, a Harvard friend of Carrick's, were among the speakers. Also United Farm Workers figure Marc Grossman, lawyer Mickey Kantor and environmental leader Joel Reynolds. Others who I've heard were there include City Council members Jan Perry, Eric Garcetti and Paul Koretz, Controller Wendy Greuel, former assemblymen Robert Hertzberg, Wally Knox and Richard Katz, political advisors Donna Bojarsky and Andy Spahn, ex-DA Gil Garcetti, former Jerry Brown I aides Jody Evans and Cari Beauchamp, and former Clinton Administration official John Emerson. Carrick had served in the first Brown Administration and worked closely on the law (authored by Howard Berman, I believe) that created the state's Agricultural Labor Relations Board.