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
Alternative Resolution Center
In his first year at the Riverside County district attorney’s office, Frederick H. Bysshe didn’t lose a case while handling misdemeanor trials, and all of that initial success earned him his first shot at a felony trial in the early 1960s, which didn’t end up going quite as well.
“I got my ass whipped by Dave Hennigan. He was the best criminal lawyer in Riverside County,” Bysshe recalled. “We fought like hell, and he beat me bad... (continued)
