
Career Highlights: Retired January 2022. Appointed to the 3rd Appellate District by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2010; appointed to the San Joaquin County Superior Court by Gov. Peter Wilson, 1995.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
STOCKTON - In 1995, state Attorney General Dan Lungren counseled newly appointed San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge William J. Murray, "Don't be like a lot of judges, who get the black robe and go into a cocoon. Be active in the community."
Murray, an accomplished prosecutor who got a judgeship a little more than a decade after... (continued)