
Career Highlights: Appointed to the San Bernardino County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Dec. 22, 2017; commissioner, San Bernardino County Superior Court, 2016-18; deputy public defender, San Bernardino County, 2002-16; sole practitioner, 1997-2002, San Francisco; associate, Law Office of Randall Knox, San Francisco, 1995-97.
Law School: UC Hastings College of the Law, 1995
JOSHUA TREE — Joel Agron has managed to achieve something like a legal hat trick. He represented clients as a public defender then oversaw their divorces as a family law commissioner and now he’s seeing some of those same faces as a criminal court judge.
That’s one of the realities of being a small town judge in the High Desert, but Agron said he doesn’t dwell too much on the past when former clients get in trouble.
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