
Career Highlights: Riverside County Superior Court, appointed 2003, retired August 2025
By Laurinda Keys
Daily Journal Staff Writer
RIVERSIDE - As a criminal defense attorney, Bernard J. Schwartz saw many judges in action, good and bad, all over Southern California, and he's determined to make his courtroom in the Riverside County Hall of Justice the kind of place where he would have liked to try cases.
"When I was practicing law there were times when I would go to courts and appear in front of judges who had a horrible environmen... (continued)