- Michael T. Sauer
Michael Thomas Sauer (born 1937) is a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge. He is best known for sentencing socialite Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail for violating terms of her probation. He was previously a Deputy City Attorney for Los Angeles, California and unsuccessfully argued the famous "Cohen v. California" case before the United States Supreme Court.
- Richard Kramer
The Honorable Richard A. Kramer was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on July 22, 1947 and graduated from the University of Southern California Law School in 1972 as a Doctor of Jurisprudence, following a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude degree in political science in 1969. He was appointed to the San Francisco superior court by governor Pete Wilson in 1996. Prior to this appointment, he was a civil litigator representing the banking industry.
- John Williams
John Williams (March 14, 1731 - October 10, 1799) was a signer of the United States' Articles of Confederation. He was one of the founders of the University of North Carolina. During the American Revolutionary War, he was a colonel in the North Carolina militia. In 1777 and 1778, Williams was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons and served as Speaker of the House. Williams was a member of the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1779.
- Rachel Entwistle
Rachel Elizabeth Entwistle (née Souza was the wife of Neil Entwistle, an unemployed British computer programmer. On 22 January, 2006, Rachel and her infant daughter Lillian (born 9 April, 2005) were found shot to death in bed in the master bedroom of their rented home in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Rachel had been shot twice; once in the torso and once in the head. Lillian had been killed by a single gunshot to the torso.
- Ronald M. George
Ronald Marc George (born March 11, 1940) is the current and 27th Chief Justice of California, where he heads the Supreme Court of California. He was appointed to his current position by Governor Pete Wilson in May 1996. He has an B.A. from Princeton University, a J.D. from Stanford Law School and has served on the Supreme Court since 1991. Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court by Wilson, …
- Mark Martin
Mark Martin (born 29 April 1963) is an American judge, currently an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. An alumnus of Western Carolina University and the law school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Martin served as legal counsel to North Carolina Governor James G. Martin, and was later named as a judge on North Carolina's District Court, Superior Court, Court of Appeals, and was finally elected to the state Supreme Court.
- John Hall
John Hall (1767-1833) was an American jurist who served as one of the original three judges of the North Carolina Supreme Court. He was elected by the North Carolina General Assembly to the court in 1818 and served on that court from its first meeting in January 1819 until his declining health led him to retire in 1832. Hall, a Staunton, Virginia native and alumnus of the College of William and Mary, moved to Warrenton, …
- Lance Ito
Lance Allan Ito (born August 2, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is a Japanese-American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his role in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. He is currently a practicing judge, who hears felony criminal cases at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. He is a resident of Pasadena. Ito was born to two Japanese-American parents, Jim and Toshi Ito.
- Lawrence Mira
Lawrence Joseph Mira (b. August 9, 1942) is a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge whose courtroom is in Malibu, California. Known by some as "Judge to the Stars", Mira's name has been mentioned in numerous high-profile and celebrity arrests due to the region his courtroom serves. In July 1992 Mira was arrested by the California Highway Patrol for drunk driving after running his yellow Nissan 300 ZX into a dirt embankment.
- G. K. Butterfield
George Kenneth Butterfield, Jr. (born April 27, 1947) commonly known as G. K. Butterfield, is an American Democratic Party politician. He currently represents North Carolina's 1st congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives. Butterfield, an only child, was born in Wilson, North Carolina. His parents were Dr. G. K. Butterfield and Addie Davis Butterfield.
- Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Napolitano Andrew P. Napolitano joined FOX News Channel in May 1998, and currently serves as a senior judicial analyst. He appears daily on The Big Story with John Gibson , co-hosts FOX and Friends once a week and is a regular on The OOeilly Factor. Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court Judge in the history of the State of New Jersey.
- Carol Corrigan
Carol A. Corrigan (born August 16, 1948, in Stockton, California) is a Justice of the California Supreme Court. On December 9, 2005, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger nominated her to the Supreme Court of California to replace Justice Janice Rogers Brown, who resigned to accept an appointment to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was confirmed in this position January 4, 2006.
- Amy Brenneman
Amy Frederica Brenneman (born June 22, 1964) is a Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for her roles in the television series "NYPD Blue" and "Judging Amy".
- Cale J. Bradford
Before joining the bench, Judge Bradford served in the Marion County Prosecutor's Office for two years, overseeing a staff of more than 100 attorneys. For five years, he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, prosecuting major felony drug trafficking cases. He engaged in the private practice of law from 1986 to 1991, and served as both a deputy prosecutor and public defender during his career.
- William L. Downing
William L. Downing is a judge of the Superior Court of Washington for King County (Seattle) and a former deputy prosecutor. He is famous for his ruling that same-sex marriages are legal in Washington, as well as for the prosecutions of the Wah Mee Massacre killers.
- Rick Distaso
Joseph Richard ("Rick") Distaso was the lead prosecutor in the case against Scott Peterson, charged with and later convicted of murdering his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn child, Conner Peterson. Laci was eight months pregnant with Conner at the time of the murder. Distaso attended University of Southern California as an undergraduate, and attended Loyola Law School for his law education. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1992.
- Antonio Lamer
Joseph Antonio Charles Lamer, PC, CC, CD, LL.D, D.U., known as Antonio Lamer (born July 8, 1933) is a Canadian lawyer and former Chief Justice of Canada.
- John C. Martin
John Charles Martin (b. 9 November 1943) is an American judge, currently Chief Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Born in Durham, North Carolina, Martin earned an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University in 1965 and his law degree from Wake Forest as well in 1967. After serving in the United States Army from 1967 to 1969, Martin entered private law practice.
- Alan Gell
Alan Gell was convicted of the murder of Allen Ray Jenkins in 1995. Gell was indicted August 7, 1995 on charges of first degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery of Allen Ray Jenkins. He was sentenced to death by Bertie County, Superior Court for the crime of first degree murder. He was later freed from death row.
- Herbert B. Dixon Jr.
Herbert B. Dixon, Jr. is a Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and has served as Presiding Judge of both the Civil Division and the Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Division. He currently serves in the Criminal Division. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Howard University.
- Thomas W. Ross
Thomas W. Ross, Sr. is the president-elect of Davidson College. After having served as executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation in Winston-Salem since 2001, Ross is scheduled to take over leadership of the private North Carolina liberal arts college on August 1, 2007. Ross graduated from Davidson in 1972, as did his father in 1937 and his children in 1999 and 2001. Ross became an attorney, chief of staff to Congressman Robin Britt, …
- John Pickering
John Pickering (22 September, 1737 - 11 April, 1805) served as Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature and as Judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. He was the first federal official to have been removed from office upon conviction upon impeachment. Born in Newington, New Hampshire, Pickering studied law at Harvard University and was admitted to the bar after graduating in 1761.
- Rebecca Brown
Rebecca Brown, M.D. (born Ruth Irene Bailey in Shelbyville, Indiana on May 21 1948) is a controversial Christian doctor best known for her claims of having helped people escape the occult in California and elsewhere throughout the world. Brown later had her medical license revoked for improper diagnosis and over medication of patients. She is known among some Fundamentalist Christians for her promoting a campaign against Satanism.
- Eric T. Washington
Eric T. Washington is the Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the highest appellate court for the District of Columbia. Chief Judge Eric T. Washington, born in December, 1953 was appointed to the D.C. Court of Appeals in 1999 by President William Jefferson Clinton.
- Charles Grabau
Charles Grabau is a Middlesex, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge. He is most noted for ruling over the case of Thomas Junta in 2002, as well as several high-profile priest abuse scandals including Robert Gale and Paul R. Shanley.
- William Whipple
William Whipple, Jr. (1730-1785), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire. William Whipple was born at Kittery, Maine, and educated at a common school until his off to sea. He became a Ship's Master by the age of twenty-three. In 1759 he landed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and in partnership with his brother, established himself as a merchant. In 1775 he was elected to represent his town at the Provincial Congress.
- Goodwin Knight
Goodwin Jess Knight (December 9, 1896 - May 22, 1970) was a U.S. politician who was the 31st Governor of California from 1953 until 1959. Knight was born in Provo, Utah, but his family moved to Los Angeles when he was a boy. His father, Jess Knight, was a mining engineer, but Goodwin followed in his mother's (Lille) father's (John B. Milner) footsteps. This grandfather was a judge in Provo, Utah. Knight attended high school in Los Angeles, at Manual Arts High School.
- Ronald M. Sohigian
Ronald M. Sohigian is a Judge of the Superior Court for Los Angeles County. yes he is
- Edmund Fanning
Edmund Fanning (April 24, 1739 - February 28, 1818) first gained fame for his role in the War of the Regulation, but later had a distinguished career as a colonial governor and British general. Edmund Fanning was born in the Town of Southold on Long Island in the colony of New York, the son of Colonel Phineas Fanning. He was graduated from Yale in 1757 and studied law in New York. He then moved to North Carolina in 1761 and settled in Hillsborough.
- Kevin Norte
Groundbreaking as it was at the time, Kevin Norte was the City of West Hollywood's Rent Stabilization Commission's first openly gay chair. Then-City Council member Paul Koretz originally appointed Norte in 1992 as one of that city's Rent Stabilization Commissioners & Norte served as that commission's chair for two one-year terms.
- Lacy Thornburg
Lacy Herman Thornburg (born 1929 in Charlotte, NC), an American lawyer and judge, was North Carolina attorney general from 1985 to 1993. After serving in the United States Army, Thornburg earned a law degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He practiced law in Webster, North Carolina from 1954 to 1967, and was meanwhile elected to three terms (1961-66) in the North Carolina House of Representatives.
- Archibald Roane
Archibald Roane (1759 or 1760 - 1819) was the second Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1801 to 1803. Roane was born in Dauphin or Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was an attorney by profession and a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, having served under George Washington and present at the surrender of General Cornwallis. He arrived in Tennessee in 1788 and began practicing law. In 1796 he was sent to the Tennessee state constitutional convention.
- George L. Wainwright Jr.
George L. Wainwright, Jr. (b. December 10, 1943) is an American judge, who recently retired as an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Born in Wilson County, North Carolina, Wainwright earned a degree in political science as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before working in agribusiness and real estate in Wilson, North Carolina for over 15 years. He earned his law degree from Wake Forest University in 1984.
- Charles Older
Charles "Chuck" Older (29 September 1917-17 June 2006) was a member of the American Volunteer Group "The Flying Tigers" and one of its Aces. In his distinguished military career, he served in both World War II and the Korean War. Older shot down 18 enemy planes and only two others bested his record. He earned a degree in political science before the war and later graduated from UCLA law school.
- Vera Coking
Vera Coking is a retired homeowner in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1993, when Donald Trump sought to expand his property holdings around his Atlantic City casino and hotel (to build a parking lot designed for limosines), he bought several lots adjacent to his property. Coking, who had lived in her house at that time for about 35 years, refused to sell. This was not the first time Coking had been asked to sell her property for development.
- Raymond St. Jacques
Raymond St. Jacques (born James Arthur Johnson was an African-American actor. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he was known for playing the roles of Coffin Ed in the 1970 blaxploitation classic "Cotton Comes to Harlem", "Rawhide" and a two year stint as Judge Clayton C. Thomas on the syndicated TV show "Superior Court" from 1988 to 1989. He died from lymphoma in Los Angeles, California in 1990. He was the father of Sterling St.
- William Lenoir
William Lenoir (1751-1839) was an American Revolutionary War officer and prominent statesman in late 18th-century and early 19th-century North Carolina. Both the City of Lenoir, North Carolina and Lenoir County, North Carolina are named for him. Additionally, Lenoir City, Tennessee is jointly named for him and for his son, William Ballard Lenoir. The USS Lenoir (AKA-74) was also (indirectly) named for him.
- Webster Thayer
Webster Thayer (Born 1857, died 1933) was an 1879 graduate of Dartmouth College and a former newspaper man. He was appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts in 1917. He is best known as the trial judge for the Sacco and Vanzetti trial.
- Matthew Griswold
Matthew Griswold (March 25 1714 -April 28 1799) was the Governor of Connecticut from 1784 to 1786. He also served as Lieutenant Governor and Chief Justice of the Superior Court, during the American Revolution (1769-1784).
- Jeffrey M. Ramsdell
Jeffrey M. Ramsdell is a judge of the Superior Court of Washington for King County (Seattle).