Riverside County (Riverside) Superior Court
Career Highlights: Confirmed to the 4th District Court of Appeal, 2017; appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to 4th District Court of Appeal, 2016; judge, Riverside County Superior Court, 2000-17; commissioner, Riverside County Superior Court, 1998-2000; commissioner, Riverside Municipal Court, 1991-98; deputy public defender, Riverside County, 1990-91; Reynolds, Reider & Bowden, 1988-90; deputy public defender, Riverside County, 1985-88; Law Offices of Susan R. Wasserman, 1985; Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, 1983-85
Law School: Western State University College of Law, 1983
California Court of Appeal
Career Highlights: Confirmed to the 4th District Court of Appeal, 2017; appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to 4th District Court of Appeal, 2016; judge, Riverside County Superior Court, 2000-17; commissioner, Riverside County Superior Court, 1998-2000; commissioner, Riverside Municipal Court, 1991-98; deputy public defender, Riverside County, 1990-91; Reynolds, Reider & Bowden, 1988-90; deputy public defender, Riverside County, 1985-88; Law Offices of Susan R. Wasserman, 1985; Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, 1983-85
Law School: Western State University College of Law, 1983
California Court of Appeal
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
RIVERSIDE - The Vietnamese immigrant sat in the gallery, his head bowed. He never looked up.
Day after day, witnesses called to Judge Richard T. Fields' Riverside courtroom described the circumstances surrounding the drowning of the man's 18-year-old daughter, Minh Phuong Thi Tran. She had been on a camping trip with her church youth group at Lake Elsinore and was wading in shallow water when the bottom un... (continued)
