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Obituaries

Jun. 30, 2022

Former public defender was champion of, mentor to, many

Longtime and beloved Orange County Superior Court Judge, Margaret R. Anderson died June 16 in Newport Beach, California, after a back injury suffered two days earlier.

Judge Anderson’s judicial career spanned three-and-a-half decades, and even after her official retirement in 2011, she regularly sat as an assigned judge until last year. She was 89.

Born Margaret Rita Ann Panella on April 12, 1933, she grew up i...

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