
Career Highlights: Joined Judicate West in October 2023; appointed to the Riverside County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2008, retired 2023; sole practitioner, Indian Wells, 2004-08; partner, Evans & Plott, Indian Wells, 2002-04; sole practitioner, Redlands, 1996-02; partner, associate, MacLachlan, Burford & Arias, San Bernardino, 1985-96; associate, Furness, Flory & Middlebrook, San Bernardino, 1981-85; associate, Hardin & Miller, Riverside, 1979-81.
Law School: Citrus Belt Law School, now California Southern Law School, 1979
Judicate West
INDIO — Judge John Evans is entirely new to probate, but he said raising a family of his own partly helped in getting ready for the recent assignment.
“You get to apply it to probate more than in other areas. That’s pretty enjoyable,” he said. “It’s not a position of power, it’s a position of doing the right thing.”
Evans spent most of his Riverside County Superior Court career in civil... (continued)