
Career Highlights: Elected to Santa Barbara County Superior Court, Nov. 1, 2008, re-elected Nov. 4, 2014, Nov. 8, 2020; research attorney Santa Barbara County Superior Court, Santa Maria, 1990-2008; senior deputy county counsel, Santa Barbara County, 1982-90; Law Office of Jed Beebe, Los Angeles, 1976-82; associate, Murchison & Cumming LLP, Los Angeles, 1975 Law School: USC Gould School of Law, 1974
Law School: USC Gould School of Law
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 influenced Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Jed Q. Beebe to go into law, or at least some position in the public arena.
“It made me think there’s something wrong with the world that needed to be fixed,” said Beebe, who was in junior high school at the time.
He had brief political aspirations during those days and law “seemed like a good... (continued)