
Career Highlights: Appointed as an Orange County Superior Court judge on Dec. 22, 2017 by Gov. Jerry Brown; senior deputy alternate defender, deputy alternate defender, Orange County alternate defender's office, 2004-17; partner, Dolnick & Dolnick, 1999-2004.
Law School: Pepperdine University School of Law, 1998
ORANGE — After a decade defending accused murderers and other violent crime suspects, Judge Jeremy D. Dolnick found himself in a different world when he joined the Orange County Superior Court.
But several months into his current assignment in juvenile dependency, the first-year judge finds himself utilizing the same key skills he brought to death penalty defense: empathy and understanding.
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