
Career Highlights: Career Highlights: Reappointed to second 14-year term, January 2024; elevated to chief bankruptcy judge, U.S. Eastern District of California, 2015; bankruptcy judge, U.S. Eastern District of California, 2010-15; adjunct professor, McGeorge School of Law, 2014-present; partner, associate, Hefner, Stark & Marois LLP, Sacramento, 1983-2010
Law School: McGeorge School of Law
By Rebecca Beyer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - In the summers leading up to law school, Ronald H. Sargis worked for the California State Fair.
He was the only applicant to show up for his interview in a three-piece suit and - after the manager insisted on seeing "the boy in the suit" - got a job working as a cashier and later in a ticket booth next to the "Killer Ants" display. All day long, he listened to the hawkers shout:... (continued)