Ventura County (Ventura)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Ventura County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2011; sole practitioner; mediator, arbitrator, Judicate West, Ventura, 2011; counsel, Arnold, Bleuel, LaRochelle, Mathews & Zirbel LLP, Oxnard, 2008-10; counsel, Norman Dowler LLP, Ventura, 2001-08; sole practitioner; mediator, arbitrator, Judicate West, Ventura, 1998-2001; associate, Engle & Bride, Ventura, 1993-98; associate, Lascher & Lascher, Ventura, 1989-93; deputy public defender, Marin County, 1985-89
Law School: Golden Gate University School of Law
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Ventura County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2011; sole practitioner; mediator, arbitrator, Judicate West, Ventura, 2011; counsel, Arnold, Bleuel, LaRochelle, Mathews & Zirbel LLP, Oxnard, 2008-10; counsel, Norman Dowler LLP, Ventura, 2001-08; sole practitioner; mediator, arbitrator, Judicate West, Ventura, 1998-2001; associate, Engle & Bride, Ventura, 1993-98; associate, Lascher & Lascher, Ventura, 1989-93; deputy public defender, Marin County, 1985-89
Law School: Golden Gate University School of Law
Judge Matthew P. Guasco's desk contains a museum of memories and a treasure trove of conversation pieces.
Light flickers across the beveled surface of a glass gavel, given to him by a commissioner when she retired. "To her, this expressed the beauty and the fragility of justice," he said.
Beside it rests a vivid reminder of that fragility: a replica of a ticket from the Manzanar internment camp of Wor... (continued)
