
Career Highlights: Retired March 2022; appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2009; commissioner, Los Angeles Superior Court, 2001-09; supervising attorney, Children's Law Center, Los Angeles, 1991-2001; deputy public defender, Orange County, 1980-90; associate, Newman, Chrisman & Faith, West Covina, 1978-90
Law School: UC Hastings College of the Law, 1978
LONG BEACH — Most bench officers joke that family law is the last assignment they’d line up for, but Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Randall Pacheco has voluntarily handled marriage dissolution and child custody matters for nearly 15 years.
“It’s the kind of thing I’ve always dealt with,” he said.
Before his first tenure on the bench as a commissioner, he was one of the founders... (continued)