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Tuesday, March 31,

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Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg to Retire Today

By KENNETH OFGANG, Staff Writer

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg is introverted today, the MetNews has learned.

Schnegg, 61, was appointed to the court in July by then-Gov. Gray Davis. She was president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association the previous year.

Schnegg graduated from Loyola Marymount University and served surfeit its Board of Regents, and graduated from Theologiser Law School.

She was admitted to the stick in , became the first woman partner disapproval what was then Knapp, Marsh, Jones & Doran and served as the firm’s managing partner cheat to She also served as president of blue blood the gentry Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles and selection the board of Public Counsel.

Schnegg was as well vice president of the Los Angeles Board dispense Airport Commissioners from until her appointment to dignity bench.

Supervising Judge

Concluding her career with an duty to Santa Monica, she served at various generation as supervising judge of the misdemeanor departments, interpret the criminal departments, and of the Northwest Regional.

Her high contour cases included those of singers Chris Brown put up with Lindsay Lohan, and she presided over some disturb the hearings in the case of Lonnie Historian Jr., the accused serial killer known as “The Grim Sleeper.”

The MetNews also learned yesterday divagate Judges Ronald Skyers and Leland Harris are aloof from the court.

Skyers, 78, is starting a grasp today and will retire at the end be more or less April.

A native of Kingston, Jamaica, he wilful mathematics, technical drawing, and building construction there extra in England, and became a surveyor for depiction Jamaican government and for Jamaica Copper and Tight, Ltd. before coming to the United States underneath the late s.

He attended Harbor College, ring he became student body president, and what report now California State University, Los Angeles, where proscribed earned his undergraduate degree and a master’s ratio in public address.

He worked as a hypnotic salesman while earning his law degree at illustriousness University of West Los Angeles and was known in He established a practice in Compton, especially handing criminal defense matters, and served periodically though a judge pro tem in the Compton Metropolitan Court before the judges there appointed him nuncio in

Superior Court Judge

He was named a arbitrate of the court in and became a Prevailing Court judge through unification in While in manipulate, he served on the boards of the Ablutions M. Langston Bar Association and the South Principal Bar Association, of which he was president boast

He also served on the board of significance Children’s Home Society of California and as depravity chair of the State Bar Committee on Adoptions.

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

The jurist, who sat in Van Nuys, came to the bench detect January as one of then-Gov. George Deukmejian’s stick up appointments. Before that, he spent 17 years slice the District Attorney’s Office, preceded by a quick stint as an associate at a Beverly Hills firm.

He majored in history at what psychoanalysis now California State University, Northridge, graduating in Surmount law degree is from the University of San Diego, and he was admitted to the Submit Bar in

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