Associate Justice, Fourth Appellate District BAR ADMISSION: Admitted to California Bar in 1963 EDUCATION: B.A. UCLA 1957; Law Degree. U.C. Berkeley (Boalt Hall) 1962; National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada, 1997; Judicial education courses provided by California Judicial Education and Research. PROFESSIONAL LEGAL BACKGROUND: Attorney with Riverside law firm of Best, Best & Krieger from October 1962 to November 1995. Specialty: complex civil litigation, including general business, eminent domain, employment law, defamation defense, real property, title insurance defense, anti-trust, and environmental litigation. JUDICIAL BACKGROUND: Appointed to Riverside Superior Court by Governor Pete Wilson, November 1995. Assigned to direct civil law and motion and trial calendar. Appointed civil supervising judge in 1996. Appointed to Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Two, by Governor Pete Wilson, May 1997. Appointed member of Judicial Council statewide task force to revise civil jury instructions, 1997. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/ASSOCIATIONS/AFFILIATIONS: President Riverside County Barristers and Riverside County Bar Association; Chairman of Riverside County Judicial Selection Committee; Board of Directors of Riverside Legal Aid Society; Panel member, seminar of Association of Business Trial Lawyers, on subject of jury voir dire; Author, chapter on jury instructions pertaining to fraud and deceit, California Forms of Jury Instructions (Matthew Bender); Member, State Bar Committee on Court Congestion; Master, Leo A. Deegan Inn of Court; Lawyer representative to federal Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference; Member, California Judges Association. EDUCATIONAL/PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS: Phi Beta Kappa, awarded upon graduation from UCLA; Order of the Coif, awarded upon graduation from Boalt Hall; Recipient of the Leo A. Deegan Award for excellence in litigation; Listed in Best Lawyers in American for business litigation. COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: Not provided