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Maureen C. Onyeagbako is a Deputy Attorney General with the California Department of Justice and a Staff Editor of Sacramento Lawyer. She can be contacted at Maureen.Onyeagbako@doj.ca.gov.
Commissioner Carlton Davis Joins the Court by Maureen C. Onyeagbako n California State Bar Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame, 2001 n Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers, since 1986 n Northern California Super Lawyers since inception n Best Lawyers in America since inception, recently:
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u Lawyer of the year, Real Estate Litigation,
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The future Commissioner went on to Tulane University anuary 2017 marked the addition of Commissioner Carlu Lawyer of the Year, Commercial Litigation, with a full track scholarship and competed in the sprints. ton Davis to the Sacramento County Superior Court Sacramento 2010 Taking the importance of an education to heart, he was bench. has been a fixture the 2014 community for the the Company Litigation, 2012,in2013, u BetDavis Commercial Litigation, 2012, 2013, 2014 u named the top student last 11 years as a DepLitigation-Banking and Finance, 2012, 2013, 2014 athlete in his class and uty u District Attorney, u Litigation-Real Estate, 2012, 2013, 2014 graduated with honors where he successfully in political science and prosecuted homicides, sociology. From there, he domestic and sexual vigraduated from the Uniolence, and gang cases, versity of Southern Caliamong others. He sees fornia Law School. the Commissioner posiWherever he is, Comtion as a new challenge missioner Davis remains and opportunity to discommitted to giving back pense justice in a differto others. As a kid, he ent way. m helped feed the homeless, A graduate of John C/ (916) 825-9952 F/ (916) 525-8446 and later he served as the F. Kennedy High School Community Service Chair in Sacramento, Davis o, CA 95814 www.genshlealaw.com for USC’s graduate school remembers attending a Presiding Judge Culhane administers the oath to Commissioner Davis senate. He is a former presprogram on justiceCounty for Sacramento Public Law Library ident of the Wiley W. Manuel Bar Association and organizes youth and listening to Judge (now Presiding Justice of the Third SCBA 2015 Contract for Success, a mentoring program for high school stuDistrict Court of Appeal) Vance W. Raye encourage students to dents and founded by Third District Court of Appeal Associate advance their educations. This was the first time Davis had ever Justice William J. Murray. Commissioner Davis gladly accepts seen a black judge, and it got him to think more seriously about the charge of role model and, as others did for him, will encourhis future. Davis’s parents had always encouraged him and his age youths to advance their educations and options. brother (now a public defender in San Francisco) to get an edCommissioner Davis is currently assigned to the Juveucation and comport themselves with dignity, but the program MAGAZINE added a visual for his career possibilities. nile Dependency Court.
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