Career Highlights: Appointed to the Humboldt County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, June 2018; commissioner, Humboldt County Superior Court, 2017-18; research attorney, Humboldt County Superior Court, 2016-17; administrative analyst, Humboldt County probation department, 2015-16; sole practitioner, Eureka, 1999-2015; sole practitioner, San Francisco, 1990-99
Law School: UC Hastings College of Law, 1990
EUREKA -- Even though marijuana use was legalized by California voters several years ago, Judge Timothy Canning gets his share of criminal cannabis cases.
But the defendants aren't facing charges of possession. Instead, they're charged with illegal growing.
Canning is a superior court judge in Humboldt County, one of three counties that form the Emerald Triangle, the largest cannabis-pro... (continued)