Keynote Speaker Chief Justice Ronald M. George is a 1961 graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a 1964 graduate of Stanford Law School. From 1965 to 1972, he served as a Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice, where he represented the State of California in six oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court. In 1972, he was appointed to the Los Angeles Municipal Court by Governor Reagan, in 1977 to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, in 1987 to the Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District, in 1991 to the California Supreme Court as an Associate Justice, and in 1996 as the 27th Chief Justice of California (confirmed in 1998 by the voters for a 12-year term). On the Superior Court, he served as Supervising Judge of the Criminal Division and presided over People v. Buono (the “Hillside Strangler” case) from 1981 to 1983. In 1982, he was elected President of the California Judges’ Association.

Among the recognitions Chief Justice George has received are the American Bar Association’s John Marshall Award (2007), the American College of Trial Lawyers Samuel E. Gates Award (2007), the Legal Writing Institute’s Golden Pen Award (2007), the American Judicature Society’s Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence (2006), Consumer Attorneys of Calif. Justice of the Year Award (2006), Burton Reform in Law Award (2006), the State Bar of California’s Bernard Witkin Medal (2005), Public Counsel’s William O. Douglas Award (2004). He served as President of the Conference of Chief Justices and Chair of the National Center for State Courts Board of Directors in 2003–04, and is a member of the steering committee of the Georgetown University Law Center’s Sandra Day O’Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary.

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