Associate Justice, Third Appellate District BAR ADMISSION: Admitted to California Bar in 1968 EDUCATION: J.D., University of California, Hastings College of Law; B.A. California State University, Hayward; A.A., Oakland City College. PROFESSIONAL LEGAL BACKGROUND: Deputy District Attorney, 1968-1974; Senior Trial Deputy District Attorney, 1974-1976; Executive Director, CA District Attorneys Association, 1976-1979; Special Asst. Attorney General, 1979-1980; Sr. Assistant Attorney General, CA Dept. of Justice,1980-1983; Deputy Director, Office of Planning/Research, 1983-1984; Founding Director and Chief Counsel, National School Safety Center, a partnership of Pepperdine University and the United States Departments of Justice and Education, 1984-1986. JUDICIAL BACKGROUND: Judge, Sacramento Municipal Court, appointed in 1987 and elected 1988; Judge, Superior Court, County of Sacramento, appointed in 1989; Associate Justice, Court of Appeal, Third District, nominated and confirmed 1990 and elected in 1994. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/ASSOCIATIONS/AFFILIATIONS: Statewide Co-Chair and Principal Author, Proposition 8, Victims’ Bill of Rights; Member, Victims of Crime Committee, American Bar Assn., 1982; Member, Planning Committee, National Judicial Conference on the Rights of Victims of Crime, 1983; Chair, Court Technology Committee, Sacramento Municipal Court, 1987-1989; Member, Executive Committee, Sacramento Municipal Court, 1988; Member, Bd of Trustees, Law Library, Co. of Sacramento, 1988-1989; Member, Commission on the Future of the CA Courts, 1991-1993; Commission’s Executive Committee/Chair, Appellate Courts/Technology Committees; Member, Select Committee of Advisors, Pacific Law Journal, McGeorge School of Law, 1992-1996; Member, Forum on Justice & Public Safety in the 21st Century, 1994-1998; Master of the Bench, Anthony M. Kennedy American Inn of Court, 1995-1998; Member, Model Courtroom Planning and Design Advisory Committee, National Judicial College, 1997; Chair, Planning Committee, Symposium on Shaping the Future of Legal Information, Bernard E. Witkin State Law Library, 1998. EDUCATIONAL/PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS: Awards: Outstanding Contribution to the Criminal Justice System (1975), Dedicated Work in the Field of Criminal Justice Legislation (1976), and Outstanding Individual within Criminal Justice System (1981), all three by Citizens for Law & Order; Distinguished and Dedicated Service, CA District Attorneys Assn. 1980; Commendations: President-Elect’s Victims of Crime Task Force, 1981; National Citizens Crime Prevention Campaign, 1982; Dean Gordon Schaber, Victims of Crime Resource Center, McGeorge School of Law, 1983; Honorary Member, American Assn. of Law Libraries, 1997; Recipient, Gov’t Technology Leadership Award, 1998. PROFESSIONAL TEACHING/EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES: Editor-in-Chief, The Crime Victims’ Handbook, CA Dept of Justice, 1981; Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University, 1985-1986; Faculty, National Conference on Juvenile Justice, 1986; Faculty, National Judicial College, 1986, 1990; Co-author, School Crime and Violence: Victims’ Rights, Pepperdine University Press, 1992; Author, “Victims’ Rights, Remedies, and Resources: A Maturing Presence in American Jurisprudence,” (1982); Co-author, “Retooling Criminal Justice: Forging Workable Governance from Dispersed Powers,” (1996); Faculty, Advanced Criminal Law Seminar, Center for Judicial Education and Research, 1997; Faculty, Appellate Courts Institute, Center for Judicial Education and Research, 1993-1998. COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: Organizer, youth legal education programs; Panelist, “Safe Schools, Playgrounds, and Parks,” May 1998; Advisor, Court/Community Outreach Task Force, 1998.