Career Highlights: Elected judge, Sacramento County Superior Court, June 7, 2022, sworn in Jan. 2, 2023; commissioner, Sacramento County Superior Court, 2020-23; adjunct professor, Lincoln Law School of Sacramento, 2023-present; adjunct professor, McGeorge School of Law, 2020-present; commissioner, Napa County Superior Court, 2019-20; assistant chief counsel, Department of Consumer Affairs, 2017-19; special assistant inspector general, Office of the Inspector General, 2015-17; managing attorney/mediator; Stockdale Law Firm Inc., 2003-15
Law School: Lincoln Law School of Sacramento, 2001
NAPA -- Commissioner Myrlys Stockdale Coleman's father was in graduate school and her mother was getting a law degree while she was in middle school, and little did she know she would follow their example while raising her own children.
"Watching my parents work hard and study ... preparing for the bar, maybe that's where I get my drive from," she said.
Stockdale Coleman was a newspaper ... (continued)