FILE - In this Dec. 6, 1979 file photo, Shirley M. Hufstedler is sworn in as the nation's first Secretary of Education by Chief Justice Warren Burger, right, while her husband Seth holds a Bible in Washington on Dec. 6, 1979. President Jimmy Carter looks on, left. Hufstedler, a former federal appellate court judge who served as the nation's first education secretary, has died. She was 90. Hufstedler died Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at a hospital in Glendale, Calif.,Morrison & Foerster, the law firm she worked at, said. She had cerebrovascular disease.(AP Photo. File)