Orange County (Newport Beach)
NEWPORT BEACH -- Robert C. Gannon Jr., was aboard a military ship in the South China Sea when he received a letter that landed him in a classroom a month later. As a decorated Navy helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War, he applied to law schools dreaming of becoming a trial prosecutor, and the letter he received from the University of San Diego during mail call one day began a career that's earned him a reputation as one of Orange County Superior Court's mo... (continued)
