Career Highlights: Appointed commissioner, Sacramento County Superior Court, Dec. 27, 2023; adjunct, Lincoln Law School of Sacramento, 2024-26; deputy district attorney, Placer County, 2021-24; associate, Jones Day, 2017-21; clerk, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., U.S. Supreme Court, 2016-17; associate, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, 2015-16; clerk, Judge Thomas B. Griffith, District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, 2014-15; associate, Irell & Manella LLP, 2013-14.
Law School: Yale Law School, 2013
SACRAMENTO--Sacramento County Superior Court Commissioner Benjamin Cassady was 4 when the hit television show "Night Court" aired its final episode in 1992. But when he received the night court assignment in Sacramento's criminal court a year ago, he went online and looked it up.
"People kept referencing it," Cassady said. "I watched the first couple episodes and it was very entertaining, but it is very different from what we do. It is kind... (continued)