
Career Highlights: Retired July 2018. Appointed to the Ventura County Superior Court by Gov. Gray Davis, 2000; Law Office of Fred Bysshe, 1990-2000; Bysshe & LaRochelle, 1985-90; Lucking, Bertelsen, Bysshe, Kuttler & Smiley, 1970-85; chief assistant district attorney, chief trial deputy, deputy, Riverside County district attorney's office, 1963-70
Law School: UC Hastings College of Law, 1962
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VENTURA -- Vito Corleone watches over Judge Frederick H. Bysshe Jr. every day.
At least a poster of the infamous fictional mob boss does.
The theatrical release ad for the 1972 cinematic classic, "The Godfather," is a memento Bysshe hung in his chambers several years ago to remember his judicial hero, Jerome H. Berenson, the former presiding judge of the Ventura County Superior Court wh... (continued)