Career Highlights: Appointed commissioner by Del Norte County Superior Court judges, 1997; county counsel, Del Norte County, 1977-97; associate, Wilson, Jones, Morton & Lynch (now Jones Hall), San Mateo, 1974-77
Law School: Stanford Law School
Thomas Owen jumped at the chance to take a job in Del Norte County after law school, but he underestimated how far away it was.
"I thought it would be like a three-hour drive from Menlo Park, where I lived. Oops!" he laughed. "It's seven hours from San Francisco."
Del Norte County is the terminus of Northern California, the last stop before Oregon.
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