
Career Highlights: Judge Pressman worked in firms in Redwood City, San Mateo and San Francisco before relocating to San Diego to found civil litigation practice, Kolodny & Pressman APC. Appointed to San Diego Superior Court by Gov. Gray Davis in December 2001. Notable cases included Alaburda v. Thomas Jefferson School of Law, 37-2011-00091898 (San Diego Super. Ct., filed May 26, 2001). Retired August 1, 2017.
Law School: UC hastings College of the Law, 1972
Judicate West
Daily Journal Staff Writer
VISTA - As a college freshman at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964, San Diego Superior Court Judge Joel Pressman studied the intellectual history of Western Europe. But outside the classroom, he found something far more engaging than Enlightenment thinkers and the Royal Society.
That fall, Pressman and thousands of hi... (continued)