Merced County (Merced)
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Merced County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Oct. 15, 2018, retired February 2025; commissioner, Merced County, 2014-18; commissioner, Mariposa County, 2012-14; self-help facilitator, Merced County Superior Court, 2008-14; sole practitioner, Merced, 1997-2008; associate, Canelo, Hansen & Wilson (now Canelo, Wallace, Padron & Mackie PC), Merced, 1989-97; associate, Dumbaugh & Childers PC, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1986-88
Law School: The University of Iowa College of Law, 1986
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Merced County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Oct. 15, 2018, retired February 2025; commissioner, Merced County, 2014-18; commissioner, Mariposa County, 2012-14; self-help facilitator, Merced County Superior Court, 2008-14; sole practitioner, Merced, 1997-2008; associate, Canelo, Hansen & Wilson (now Canelo, Wallace, Padron & Mackie PC), Merced, 1989-97; associate, Dumbaugh & Childers PC, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1986-88
Law School: The University of Iowa College of Law, 1986
MERCED — Shortly after law school, Shelly Seymour found herself at the epicenter of Iowa’s farm crisis, a brand of calamity not seen since the Great Depression.
“My first job was doing bankruptcy work in Iowa farm reorganization,” she said. “The 80s were a bad decade for the state of Iowa. It was very economically depressed.”
Thousands of farming families defaulted on loans and lost prop... (continued)
