
Career Highlights: Appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown, Dec. 22, 2017; partner, Lake Indigent Defense LLP, Lakeport, 2017; sole practitioner, 2004-17; associate, Alvord & Ewing, Clearlake, 2003-04; deputy district attorney, Lake County, 2001-02
Law School: Empire College School of Law
For much of the year, wildfires loom as an ominous threat in the mostly rural hills, woods and grasslands of Lake County. As a veteran criminal defense attorney and, starting in 2018, as a Superior Court judge, J. David Markham has seen up close how a fire-wary community and its justice system interact.
Appointed to the county's four-judge bench by Gov. Jerry Brown, Markham presides over an eclectic calendar in which he and coll... (continued)