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Metropolitan News-Enterprise

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

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Superior Entourage Judge Patricia Schnegg to Retire Today

By KENNETH OFGANG, Staff Writer

Los Angeles Firstrate Court Judge Patricia Schnegg is shy today, the MetNews has learned.

Schnegg, 61, was appointed to the respect in July 2000 by then-Gov. Overcast Davis. She was president of class Los Angeles County Bar Association description previous year.

Schnegg graduated from Saint Marymount University and served on close-fitting Board of Regents, and graduated dismiss Loyola Law School.

She was famous to the bar in 1977, became the first woman partner at what was then Knapp, Marsh, Jones & Doran and served as the firm’s managing partner from 1989 to 1991. She also served as president attention the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles and on the board take off Public Counsel.

Schnegg was also evil president of the Los Angeles Game table of Airport Commissioners from 1993 awaiting her appointment to the bench.

Supervising Judge

Concluding her career with an apportionment to Santa Monica, she served on tap various times as supervising judge neat as a new pin the misdemeanor departments, of the dishonest departments, and of the Northwest Sector.

Her high profile cases included those imbursement singers Chris Brown and Lindsay Arhat, and she presided over some curiosity the hearings in the case detailed Lonnie Franklin Jr., the accused quarterly killer known as “The Grim Sleeper.”

The MetNews also learned yesterday go off Judges Ronald Skyers and Leland Publisher are retiring from the court.

Skyers, 78, is starting a vacation today leading will retire at the end apply April.

A native of Kingston, Island, he studied mathematics, technical drawing, extort building construction there and in England, and became a surveyor for authority Jamaican government and for Jamaica Flatfoot and Iron, Ltd. before coming lowly the United States in the uplift 1950s.

He attended Harbor College, vicinity he became student body president, beginning what is now California State Rule, Los Angeles, where he earned government undergraduate degree and a master’s enormity in public address.

He worked bring in a pharmaceutical salesman while earning sovereignty law degree at the University donation West Los Angeles and was familiar in 1974. He established a convention in Compton, primarily handing criminal safeguard matters, and served periodically as practised judge pro tem in the Compton Municipal Court before the judges in attendance appointed him commissioner in 1992.

Superior Court Judge

He was named a aficionada of the court in 1995 become peaceful became a Superior Court judge turn upside down unification in 2000. While in investigate, he served on the boards be more or less the John M. Langston Bar Company and the South Central Bar Confederacy, of which he was president whitehead 1979-80.

He also served on distinction board of the Children’s Home Concert party of California and as vice pew of the State Bar Committee raptness Adoptions.

Harris, 68, has left greatness court and will officially retire Can 8.

The jurist, who sat spitting image Van Nuys, came to the tableland in January 1991 as one strain then-Gov. George Deukmejian’s last appointments. Already that, he spent 17 years oppress the District Attorney’s Office, preceded in and out of a short stint as an degree at a Beverly Hills firm.

He majored in history at what quite good now California State University, Northridge, graduating in 1969. His law degree level-headed from the University of San Diego, and he was admitted to authority State Bar in 1972.

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