
Career Highlights: Elected to Ventura County Superior Court, 2008, retired July 2024; chief deputy district attorney, Ventura County district attorney's office, 1994-2009; deputy district attorney, 1989-1994; officer, Santa Barbara police department, 1981-1988
Law School: Santa Barbara College of Law, 1989
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
VENTURA - Jeff Bennett seemed like a typical, fun-loving teenager when he transferred to Rio Americano High School in Sacramento midway through the school year. Surfer blond, Bennett had the boyish good looks, the wheels and the cash to hang with the party crowd.
"I was this cool guy with the car," he said.
It was not until summer that his classmates discovered he was an undercover narc with the ... (continued)