
Career Highlights: Elected to the Ventura County Superior Court, 2010; deputy district attorney, Ventura County, 1997-2010
Law School: Pepperdine University School of Law (now Pepperdine Caruso School of Law), 1997
By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer
VENTURA - Ryan J. Wright was Ventura County's senior deputy district attorney in charge of drug crimes in 2004 when 17-year-old Tia Nugent, hallucinating on illegal mushrooms, was struck and killed while walking nude down the 101 freeway.
Wright argued hard that the people who supplied her with the drugs should go to prison. So he was very angry when the judge sentenced the two young men, barely older... (continued)