Riverside County Superior Court
Career Highlights: Appointed Riverside County Superior Court judge by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, March 26, 2009, retired 2024; deputy public defender, Riverside County, 2007-09, 2000-05; sole practitioner, 2005-07, Temecula; sole practitioner, 1993-99, Santa Maria; associate, Law Offices of William K. Gamble, Santa Maria, 1992-93; associate, Bawden & Tyler, Redlands, 1990-92; criminal defense attorney, U.S. Army, 1985-90
Law School: Pepperdine University School of Law, 1984
Career Highlights: Appointed Riverside County Superior Court judge by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, March 26, 2009, retired 2024; deputy public defender, Riverside County, 2007-09, 2000-05; sole practitioner, 2005-07, Temecula; sole practitioner, 1993-99, Santa Maria; associate, Law Offices of William K. Gamble, Santa Maria, 1992-93; associate, Bawden & Tyler, Redlands, 1990-92; criminal defense attorney, U.S. Army, 1985-90
Law School: Pepperdine University School of Law, 1984
By Jason W. Armstrong
Daily Journal Staff Writer
RIVERSIDE - Mark E. Johnson was standing a few inches from a window in an Iraqi palace six years ago when he heard a sound "like a freight train coming in." A bomb hit the ground 20 feet outside the window but failed to detonate.
That was one of several times Johnson - then on active duty as a U.S. Army judge advocate in a civil affairs battalion in Baghdad - said he had close brushes with death.... (continued)
