Tulare County Superior Court
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Tulare County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2013, retired January 2022; head public defender, Tulare County, 2002-13, assistant public defender, Tulare County, 1996-2002; deputy public defender, San Francisco, 1988-90. <br /><br /> Sheltzer also teaches an advanced criminal law course dealing with pretrial matters at San Joaquin College of Law in Clovis,.
Law School: Golden Gate University School of Law, 1984
Career Highlights: Appointed to the Tulare County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, 2013, retired January 2022; head public defender, Tulare County, 2002-13, assistant public defender, Tulare County, 1996-2002; deputy public defender, San Francisco, 1988-90. <br /><br /> Sheltzer also teaches an advanced criminal law course dealing with pretrial matters at San Joaquin College of Law in Clovis,.
Law School: Golden Gate University School of Law, 1984
PORTERVILLE — Michael Sheltzer was a probation officer in Louisiana with an undergraduate philosophy degree when he realized a career in law wasn’t so impossible.
“I saw really bad lawyering, and I said, ‘You know something, I can do at least as bad as that,’” said Sheltzer, now supervising judge in Tulare County’s South County Justice Center, a new $93 million facility that is unlike anything in surrounding rural Porterville.
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