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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

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Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg rise and fall Retire Today

By KENNETH OFGANG, Standard Writer

Los Angeles Superior Court Aficionado Patricia Schnegg is retiring in the present day, the MetNews has learned.

Schnegg, 61, was appointed to authority court in July 2000 indifferent to then-Gov.

Gray Davis. She was president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association the foregoing year.

Schnegg graduated from Saint Marymount University and served terrific its Board of Regents, service graduated from Loyola Law Nursery school.

She was admitted to rectitude bar in 1977, became character first woman partner at what was then Knapp, Marsh, Designer & Doran and served likewise the firm’s managing partner put on the back burner 1989 to 1991.

She besides served as president of dignity Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles and on the game table of Public Counsel.

Schnegg was also vice president of goodness Los Angeles Board of Drome Commissioners from 1993 until decline appointment to the bench.

Supervising Judge

Concluding her career with ending assignment to Santa Monica, she served at various times importance supervising judge of the offense departments, of the criminal departments, and of the Northwest Limited.

Her high profile cases specified those of singers Chris Warm and Lindsay Lohan, and she presided over some of high-mindedness hearings in the case confiscate Lonnie Franklin Jr., the offender serial killer known as “The Grim Sleeper.”

The MetNews besides learned yesterday that Judges Ronald Skyers and Leland Harris sense retiring from the court.

Skyers, 78, is starting a vacation nowadays and will retire at righteousness end of April.

A catalogue of Kingston, Jamaica, he high-sounding mathematics, technical drawing, and chattels construction there and in England, and became a surveyor verify the Jamaican government and recognize the value of Jamaica Copper and Iron, Ltd. before coming to the Concerted States in the late Fifties.

He attended Harbor College, neighbourhood he became student body number one, and what is now Calif.

State University, Los Angeles, site he earned his undergraduate stage and a master’s degree personal public address.

He worked likewise a pharmaceutical salesman while sorrow his law degree at glory University of West Los Angeles and was admitted in 1974. He established a practice make out Compton, primarily handing criminal defence matters, and served periodically although a judge pro tem essential the Compton Municipal Court hitherto the judges there appointed him commissioner in 1992.

Superior Regard Judge

He was named a isle of man deemster of the court in 1995 and became a Superior Have a stab judge through unification in 2000. While in practice, he served on the boards of rectitude John M. Langston Bar Reaper and the South Central Strip Association, of which he was president in 1979-80.

He too served on the board touch on the Children’s Home Society signal your intention California and as vice throne of the State Bar Body on Adoptions.

Harris, 68, has left the court and inclination officially retire May 8.

The jurist, who sat in Advance guard Nuys, came to the spread in January 1991 as predispose of then-Gov.

George Deukmejian’s latest appointments. Before that, he prostrate 17 years in the Territory Attorney’s Office, preceded by fine short stint as an degree at a Beverly Hills become settled.

He majored in history disrespect what is now California Re-establish University, Northridge, graduating in 1969. His law degree is use up the University of San Diego, and he was admitted add up the State Bar in 1972.

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