
Career Highlights: Retired August 2020 after nearly 20 years serving as a U.S. magistrate judge on the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles; previously, trial attorney, U.S. Department of Justice.
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Retired U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick J. Walsh began his legal career clerking in the federal court in Saipan, where he often sailed around the tropical island during his free time on a 16-foot Hobie catamaran.
He even took Anthony Kennedy for a ride in the Pacific Ocean around the northern Mariana Island when the now retired Supreme Court justice was a 9th Circuit judge. "He was just as normal as you can believe," Walsh recalle... (continued)