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Obituaries

Aug. 8, 2019

Longtime Mono County DA and judge remembered for treating defendants with respect

N. Edward Denton served Mono County as district attorney, county counsel and judge.

Longtime Mono County DA and judge remembered for treating defendants with respect

Attorney Paul S. Rudder said back in the 1980s and 1990s Mono County Superior Court Judge N. Edward Denton would often ask him to stop by his chambers before he drove home from the 1880 courthouse in tiny Bridgeport. But Denton didn’t want to talk about a case; he and his clerk wanted gossip.

“The doings of the city folk were hilarious,” Rudder said. “I would keep them up to date on what was happening in the big city.”

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