Career Highlights: Appointed to the Orange County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, July 2009; deputy attorney general, California Department of Justice, Los Angeles, 1997-2009; associate, Rutan & Tucker, Costa Mesa, 1996-97.
Law School: UC Berkeley School of Law, 1995
ORANGE - One day soon after joining the Orange County Superior Court, Judge Deborah J. Chuang heard a misdemeanor jury trial.
It was the very first jury trial of her legal career.
A former deputy attorney general, Chuang had spent nearly all her time in practice handling criminal appeals. So days like the one when she sentenced a felon in the morning and conducted a traffic-ticket trial in the afternoon were quite a change for the young jurist.
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