
Career Highlights: Appointed Mariposa County Superior Court judge by Gov. Gavin Newsom, August 8, 2022; pro tem judge, Mariposa County Superior Court, 2017-22; partner, Starchman & Bryant, Mariposa, 2005-22; associate, Downey Brand LLP, Sacramento, 2001-05
Law School: University of California, Berkeley School of Law
MARIPOSA -- Judge Anita S. Bryant still listens to the bell of the elementary school she used to attend.
That is because those daily chimes are not too far away -- just a couple of blocks from the historic Mariposa Courthouse, in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains or, as it is known by many visitors, a 45-minute pilgrimage by car to Yosemite National Park.
It is the oldest courth... (continued)