Sacramento County Superior
Career Highlights: Retired July 2022; Appointed by Gov. Gray Davis to Sacramento Superior Court, 2002; chief assistant attorney general in charge of civil law division, 1999-2002; chief counsel and staff attorney, California Department of Corrections, 1986-99; associate, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, 1985-86
Law School: Harvard Law School, 1985
Career Highlights: Retired July 2022; Appointed by Gov. Gray Davis to Sacramento Superior Court, 2002; chief assistant attorney general in charge of civil law division, 1999-2002; chief counsel and staff attorney, California Department of Corrections, 1986-99; associate, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, 1985-86
Law School: Harvard Law School, 1985
SACRAMENTO - Two years ago, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Pamela Smith-Steward went from overseeing 500 lawyers at the state attorney general's office to overseeing a criminal docket in her fifth-floor courtroom.
Her appointment to the bench by Gov. Gray Davis in 2002 was the latest stop in a rapidly rising career that has taken Smith-Steward, 42, from a modest upbringing in Los Angeles to Harvard Law School to the upper tier of public-sector legal work.
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