
Career Highlights: Appointed Orange County Superior Court judge by Gov. Jerry Brown, Nov. 29, 2018; of counsel, associate, Law Offices of Ronald B. Schwartz APC, Newport Beach, 2002-18; associate, Freitas, McCarthy, MacMahon and Keating LLP, 1999-2001
Law School: University of San Francisco School of Law
SANTA ANA -- After nearly 20 years as a civil litigator, Judge H. Shaina Colover's first year on the Orange County Superior Court has been a crash course in criminal law. It's also been a fresh way to test old talents in a drug court assignment that often requires the compassionate approach she honed while representing child sex abuse victims and other injured clients.
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