
Career Highlights: Appointed to the San Diego County Superior Court by Gov. Gray Davis, Aug. 29, 2001, retired January 2023; deputy senior assistant attorney general, supervising deputy attorney general, deputy attorney general, California Department of Justice, 1989-2001; associate, Gray Cary Ames & Frye, San Diego, 1984-89.
Law School: UCLA School of Law
SAN DIEGO — Her role is to make decisions, Judge Laura W. Halgren said, “so I need to listen to both sides and determine what is fair and appropriate given the circumstances. There are a lot of competing factors that I have to weigh.”
Those hard decisions are coming to an end, though, as Halgren is retiring in mid-January after 21 years on the San Diego County Superior Court and 17 in practice, mostly as a state prosecutor.
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