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Obituaries

Jan. 4, 2021

Retired OC judge ‘cared about the human condition’

Retired Orange County Judge helped establish learning centers for troubled students.

Retired Orange County Judge Jack K. Mandel, known for his charity and helping troubled students, died Dec. 24. He was 84.

Former Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. appointed Mandel to the bench in 1981, where he stayed until 2000.

Mandel turned down the first offer he got to become a judge, he said in a Daily Journal profile from 1988.

"I knew what I was,'' Mandel recalled...

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