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Feb. 14, 2011

Michael O'Gara

Raised by show business parents, Judge Michael O'Gara pivoted from ice skating to dreams of directing films to a law career and his current misdemeanor calendar.

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Michael O'Gara
Los Angeles County (Santa Clarita)

By Pat Alston

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA CLARITA - Judge Michael J. O'Gara was born to skate.

The son of an Ice Capades line skater and lighting director, he was on the road with his parents for the first two years of his life, and was skating by the time he was 4.

His interests shifted from the ice rink to a sound stage, however, when his father found work in the television industry. In high school and college, O'Gara worked as a g... (continued)

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