San Bernardino County (San Bernardino)
Career Highlights: Sitting pro tem in Division 7, 2nd District Court of Appeal, through April 2024; appointed to San Bernardino County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2017; sole practitioner, Tony Raphael APLC, Claremont, 2014-17; U.S. attorney's office: chief of Eastern Division, Riverside; assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern Division, Riverside; assistant U.S. attorney, Western Division, 2003-14; clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Lourdes G. Baird, Central District of California, 2002-03; associate, Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angeles, 2001-02
Law School: Loyola Law School, 2001
Career Highlights: Sitting pro tem in Division 7, 2nd District Court of Appeal, through April 2024; appointed to San Bernardino County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2017; sole practitioner, Tony Raphael APLC, Claremont, 2014-17; U.S. attorney's office: chief of Eastern Division, Riverside; assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern Division, Riverside; assistant U.S. attorney, Western Division, 2003-14; clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Lourdes G. Baird, Central District of California, 2002-03; associate, Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angeles, 2001-02
Law School: Loyola Law School, 2001
Growing up during the civil war in Lebanon, one of Superior Court Judge Antoine F. Raphael’s earliest childhood memories is his mother returning home, happy for the first time in months, after speaking to a judge who allowed her to liquidate her family’s assets.
Raphael’s father, under whose name the assets were held, died in the war and many judges demanded a premium from his mother to sign off on the transfer, which she could ... (continued)
