
Career Highlights: Appointed presiding justice, 3rd District Court of Appeal, 2023-present, associate justice, 2022-23; appointed judge, Sacramento County Superior Court, 2005-2021, presiding judge 2012-13; senior assistant inspector general, Sacramento County Office of the Inspector General, 2004-5; deputy district attorney, Sacramento County, 1995-2004; assistant public defender, Sacramento County, 1989-95.
Law School: Lincoln Law School, Sacramento, 1988
SACRAMENTO -- It would be an understatement to say Presiding Justice Laurie M. Earl has a nice office. Her spacious chambers in the nearly century-old Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building are entirely covered in ornate wood paneling.
"I remember the very first time I saw them I was the presiding judge of the Sacramento County Superior Court, and I came over here to visit with Presiding Justice [Vance W.] Raye," Earl said. "... (continued)