
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Yolo County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2008; commissioner, Yolo County, 2006-08; deputy district attorney, Yolo County, 2002-06; research attorney, California Senate Republican Office of Fiscal Policy, Sacramento, 2000-01; general counsel, Agricultural Relations Board, Sacramento, 1995-00; deputy attorney, Placer County, 1991-95; deputy district attorney, 1989-90, Sacramento County; associate, Bolling, Walter & Gawthrop, Sacramento, 1986-89; special assistant district attorney and assistant district attorney, Middlesex County, 1983-86; assistant district attorney, Essex County, 1981-83
Law School: University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
By Amy Yarbrough
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WOODLAND - In law school, Judge Paul K. Richardson received the best piece of career advice during a phone interview.
Richardson was studying at Suffolk Law School in Boston and had his eye on an internship with the Massachusetts Defender's Committee, a statewide public defender's service. As they talked, however, it became clear to the man on the other end of the line that Richardson's heart was el... (continued)