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Associate Justice, Fourth Appellate District
BAR ADMISSION: Admitted to California Bar in 1962
EDUCATION: B.S., Industrial Engineering, Stanford University; L.L.B., School of Law, University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall).
PROFESSIONAL LEGAL BACKGROUND: Law Clerk to Justice Raymond E. Peters, California Supreme Court, 1962-1963; Associate and Partner, Oakes & McDonald (formerly Oakes & Horton), 1964-1972, San Diego, California; Partner, McDonald, Hecht & Solberg (now Hecht, Solberg, Robinson & Goldberg), 1972-1995, San Diego, California.
JUDICIAL BACKGROUND: Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal, District Four, Division One, June 1995 to date.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/ASSOCIATIONS/AFFILIATIONS: Member, Appellate Advisory Committee to the California Judicial Council; Member, California Judges Association.
EDUCATIONAL/PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS: Member and Note and Comment Editor, California Law Review, School of Law, University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), 1959-1961; Order of the Coif, School of Law, University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall); Ford Foundation Fellowship, University of Bombay, India, 1961-1962; Listed in the Best Lawyers in America, 1987-1995.
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING/EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES: Former Instructor, California Continuing Education of the Bar, programs on real estate law; Attended Judicial College, New York University School of Law, program for new appellate judges, July 1996.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: Member, Board of Directors, San Diego Urban League; Member, Lions Club of San Diego.