
Career Highlights: Appointed by Gov. Gray Davis to Modoc Superior Court, August 2003, retired August 2024; sole practitioner, 1987-2003; city attorney, Alturas, 1995-2003; city attorney, Tulelake, 1990-98; associate, Bowling, Walter and Gawthrop, Sacramento, 1986-87; associate, Thornton, Taylor and Downs, San Francisco, 1981-86; associate, Berry and Berry, Oakland, 1981
Law School: Hastings College of the Law, 1981
ALTURAS - Growing up in a town with a population of 3,000 can be a blessing and a curse. Just ask Superior Court Judge Francis W. Barclay.
The freshman judge, appointed by Gov. Gray Davis in August 2003 to the Modoc County bench, grew up in the isolated community of Alturas in the northeastern part of the state that borders Nevada and Oregon.
Being a small-town teenager attending the only high school within 100 miles afforded Barclay incredible opportunities... (continued)