San Diego, CA
Governor appoints four new judges to San Diego Superior Court
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s workplace introduced Friday that he has appointed 4 new judges to fill vacancies on the San Diego Superior Courtroom bench.
The newly tapped jurists are all registered Democrats. They hail from assorted authorized paths: a metropolis legal professional, a public protection legal professional and two civil litigation attorneys — one who based a nonprofit to assist folks with disabilities pursue a authorized profession and the opposite who has represented folks alleging misconduct by regulation enforcement.
Every will fill a spot created with the retirements of sitting judges, and every will earn about $225,000 a 12 months.
Charles Bell, Jr.
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Charles Bell Jr., 40, has served because the Metropolis Lawyer for Nationwide Metropolis since 2020.
A San Diego resident, his resume features a one 12 months stretch at as assistant metropolis legal professional in San Luis Obispo Metropolis Lawyer’s Workplace, which adopted 5 years working on the San Diego Metropolis Lawyer’s Workplace beginning in 2014.
That very same 12 months, he was elected president of the Earl B. Gilliam Bar Affiliation, a neighborhood non-profit working to advance “the political, financial, academic, social, legislative, and authorized pursuits of the Black neighborhood in San Diego County,” in accordance with its web site.
Earlier than that, Bell labored at McCarthy & Holthus LLP. He earned his regulation diploma from California Western College of Regulation, and was admitted to the California State Bar in 2008.
Bell fills the seat vacated by the retirement of Choose Richard E.L. Strauss.
Adelaida Lopez
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Adelaida Lopez, 45, has served as a deputy public defender in San Diego County since 2006, the identical 12 months she was admitted to the California State Bar.
The San Marcos resident earned her regulation diploma from the College of California, Hastings Faculty of the Regulation.
Lopez fills a emptiness created by retirement of Choose Sharon B. Majors-Lewis.
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Peter Lynch
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Peter Lynch, 62, has been the workplace managing companion in San Diego for regulation agency Cozen O’Connor since 1988, Newsom’s workplace mentioned.
His resume additionally contains greater than two years within the Marine Corps authorized places of work in Yuma, the place he labored as a prosecutor, protection legal professional and authorized help workplace.
The San Diego man can also be the founder and CEO of Incapacity Rights Now, a San Diego-based nonprofit group that helps folks with disabilities pursue a authorized profession.
Lynch earned his regulation diploma from the Southern Illinois College College of Regulation, and was admitted to the California State Bar in 1986.
He’ll take the seat left empty by the retirement of Choose Amalia L. Meza.
Christopher Morris
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Christopher Morris, 57 has been a sole practitioner for a number of years, and has represented folks alleging police misconduct.
From 2008 to 2013, the San Diego resident was a companion at Aguirre and Severson.
Previous to that, he spent a number of years on the San Diego Metropolis Lawyer’s Workplace, working as much as turn out to be the assistant metropolis legal professional in command of the prison prosecutions division.
Morris earned his regulation diploma from Brigham Younger College Regulation College, and was admitted to the California State Bar in 1992.
He’ll take the seat left open when Choose Margo Lewis Hoy retired.