Career Highlights: Appointed to the court of Appeal by Gov. Jerry Brown, October 2018; pro tem justice, 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division Seven, 2017; Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, 2015-18; research attorney for Presiding Justice Frances Rothschild, 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division One, 2005-15; associate, Horvitz & Levy, 2004-05; associate, Sidley Austin, 2001-04; clerk for 9th U.S. Circuit court of Appeals Judge A. Wallace Tashima, 2000-01
Law School: UCLA School of Law
California Court of Appeal
With a mostly favorable tentative ruling in hand, San Diego attorney Michael W. Garnett said he'd be brief.
"I plan to not argue myself out of the tentative," he joked.
Garnett was only 18 seconds into his argument, on behalf of a couple whose rental home was damaged by tenants in a marijuana farm fire, when 4th District Court of Appeal Justice Frank J. Menetrez interrupted him.
