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Feb. 17, 2022

Patient but Exacting

Judge Stephen Morgan is also a JAG officer who did tours in Iraq.

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Patient but Exacting
Los Angeles County (Lancaster)

Career Highlights: Elected to Los Angeles County Superior Court, 2020; Lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army JAG Corps, 2007-present; deputy district attorney, Los Angeles County, 2012-21; Professor, Abraham Lincoln University School of Law, Glendale, 2015-present; founder, former chair, Armed Forces Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, 2013-14; criminal defense attorney, Anthony V. Salerno & Associates in Los Angeles, 2010-12; adjunct professor, The John Marshall School of Law, Chicago, 2009; deputy executive director, Honolulu Habitat for Humanity, 2005.

Law School: University of Hawai'i at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law

LANCASTER — An occasional desert wind sweeps through the contorted-armed yuccas in a Joshua Tree preserve across the street from the Michael D. Antonovich Antelope Valley Courthouse. The setting is in stark contrast to where Judge Stephen Morgan came from.

“They call it ‘down below’ here, and I’d say it has more of a small town feeling,” Morgan said.

The environment is polar opposite to his time as a ... (continued)

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