
Career Highlights: Retired January 12, 2023, after 20 years from California Fourth District Court of Appeal; served 8 years as magistrate judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
Judicate West
By Blake Edwards
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN DIEGO - When Gov. Gray Davis appointed Justice Cynthia G. Aaron to the 4th District Court of Appeal in 2002, she was, in many ways, the perfect nominee.
A native of St. Louis Park, Minn., Aaron had graduated with honors from Stanford University, where she majored in psychology. After graduating cum laude from Harvard Law School, she spent four years doing indigent criminal defense work with the Federal Defe... (continued)