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Sep. 27, 2017

Setting Change

Contra Costa Presiding Judge Jill Fannin is paving a path for the court beyond her tenure.

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Setting Change

Jill Fannin (Ret.)

Contra Costa County (Martinez)

Career Highlights: Appointed to the Contra Costa County Superior Court by Gov. Gray Davis, April 2003, retired February 2024; Presiding Judge, 2017; JAMS, 2000-2003; of counsel, Morison-Knox Holden Melendez & Prough LLP, 1998-2000; associate, Chavez & Gertler LLP, 1995-1998; associate, Farrow, Bramson, Chavez & Baskin, 1993-1995; associate, Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon 1989-1993; associate, Kornblum & McBride, 1987-1989

Law School: UC Hastings College of the Law, 1987
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MARTINEZ — Contra Costa County Presiding Judge Jill Fannin always wanted to be a lawyer. Sitting in her chambers in Martinez, she points to a worn doll that sits on a shelf next to rows of legal tomes and describes how she and her sister used it as a character when playing lawyer as children.

“Of course I would be the lawyer,” Fannin said, adding that her sister would often play a mother with an injured child or a defen... (continued)

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