Inyo and Mono counties
Career Highlights: Retired December 2020; Inyo and Mono Superior Court Commissioner, 2013-present; child support attorney/interim director, Fresno County Department of Child Support Services, 1989-2012; solo attorney, Fresno, 1987-1989; associate, 1985-87.
Law School: Pepperdine University School of Law, 1985
Career Highlights: Retired December 2020; Inyo and Mono Superior Court Commissioner, 2013-present; child support attorney/interim director, Fresno County Department of Child Support Services, 1989-2012; solo attorney, Fresno, 1987-1989; associate, 1985-87.
Law School: Pepperdine University School of Law, 1985
Commissioner David E. Knowles serves an area larger than Maryland. But Inyo and Mono counties, where he hears traffic and child custody cases, have just 32,000 people between them.
On some days, he’ll wake up in his home near Crowley Lake, a few miles from Mammoth, and drive about 75 miles to Independence, population 670. Knowles will hear cases all day in a courthouse built in 1921 that’s listed on the National Registe... (continued)
