Education:

B.B.A., St. Bonaventure University, 1962 with Honors J.D., University of California Boalt Hall School of Law, 1968

Military:

Officer, United States Army, 1962-1963

Appointment Date:

Elected to Office on June 4, 1996 for a term commencing on January 6, 1997

Assignments:

General Trial Judge

Background & Professional Associations:

Director, San Mateo County Bar Association
President, Director, San Mateo County Barristers Club
President, Director, San Mateo County Trial Lawyers Association
Director, California Trial Lawyers Association
Outstanding Trial Lawyer Chapter President, 1982
State Bar of California: Member, Board of Governors, 1991-1994, and Vice-President, 1994

• Member: Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation
• Committee on the Environment
• Committee on Administration of Justice

Commended by the State Bar of California for providing Pro-Bono legal services
Lecturer: Continuing Education of the Bar; Trial Lawyer Seminars
Lecturer: Center for Judicial Education and Research
San Mateo County Legal Aid Society - Pro-Bono Services

Community Participation:

San Mateo County Planning Commission Member 1983-March 1995; Chair, 1986, 1991 & 1993
President, Italian American Federation, Honored Guest 1982
Member, Parent Teachers Associations
Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts: Troop Scout Master 1964-1965, Presidio of San Francisco
Recipient, Exceptional Leadership and Dedication Award, 1965
Instructor, Business Law at San Mateo County Community College
President, Italian American Bar Association

Expectations:

Please be on time and always be polite.

Education:

University of California, Santa Barbara, Undergraduate Degree 1972 Santa Clara Law School, 1975

Appointment Date:

July 2002

Assignments:

Background & Professional Associations: Criminal Defense between 1975 and 1985
Plaintiff's Personal Injury, Civil Litigation, Family Law, Probate and Trust Administration -1975-2002

Education:

J.D., University of San Francisco, 1984
B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1981

Appointment Date:

February 25, 1997

Assignments:

Presiding Judge 2007-2008,
Assistant Presiding Judge 2005-2006,
Supervising Judge 2004-2006,
Civil Division, Case Management and A.D.R., Supervising Judge 2003,
Criminal Division, Law & Motion Judge 2005,
Criminal Presiding Judge 2000,
Family Law Judge 1998-1999

Background & Professional Associations:

Personal: Married. Three children.
Hobbies: Coaching youth sports.

Education:

Harvard Law School, J.D. 1979
University of California, Berkeley, A.B. Economics 1976

Appointment Date:

December 31, 2000

Assignments:

General Trial (2005),
Law and Motion (2004),
Family Law (2001-2003)

Background & Professional Associations:

Admitted to California Bar: 1981
Admitted to Washington D.C. Bar: 1979
San Mateo County Counsel, Deputy County Counsel: 1983 to 2000
Lasky Haas, Cohler and Munter, Associate Attorney: 1981 to 1983
Fried Frank Harris Shriver and Kampelman, Associate Attorney, Washington, D.C. 1979 to 1981

Education:

B. S., University of San Francisco, 1974
J. D., Hastings College of the Law, 1977
L. L. M., Golden Gate University, 1982

Appointment Date:

December 2, 2004 by Governor Schwarzenegger

Assignments:

Civil and Criminal Trials

Background & Professional Associations:

Associate, Hunt & Hunt, 1977 - 1984
Deputy District Attorney, Riverside County, 1984 - 1987
Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1985 - 1986
Deputy District Attorney, San Mateo County, 1987 - 2004
Judge Advocate General Corps, U. S. Army Reserve, 1984 - 1993
Co-Author, Chapter 55, Death Cases, CEB Criminal Law Procedure & Practice (1st Ed. Update & 2nd Ed.)
Reported cases handled as trial counsel:
People v. Jacobs (1987) 193 Cal.App. 3d 375;
People v. Johnson (1992) 5 Cal.App.4th 552;
People v. Ceja (1993) 4 Cal.4th 1134;
People v. Collins (1996) 45 Cal.App.4th 849;
People v. Cavitt (2004) 33 Cal. 4th 187

Education:

B.A., Claremont Men's (McKenna) College, 1981
J.D., Hastings College of the Law 1984

California Bar Admission:

1984

Appointment:

January 31, 2000

Assignments:

Current: Criminal, Family Law, Drug Court, Traffic Court Trials, Master Calendar Assignments;
Past: Traffic, Small Claims, Criminal, LPS Hearings, Master Calendar Assignments

Professional Work History:

Law Offices of Susan L. Greenberg, Sole Practitioner, 1991 -2000
Law Offices of Philip H. Schecter, Associate Attorney, 1987-1991
San Mateo County Deputy District Attorney, 1984-1987

Legal Activities:

Member, San Mateo County Bar Association
Judge Pro-tem, San Mateo County Municipal and Superior Court
Coach, Mock Trial High School Teams

Education:

Stanford University, AB Political Science
University of Santa Clara School of Law, JD

Appointment Date:

February 25, 1997, elevated by Consolidation on June 12, 1998

Assignments:

Presiding Judge (2009-2010)
Assistant Presiding Judge (2007-2008)
Presiding Judge - Appellate Division (2006-2007)
Presiding Criminal Judge 2001, 2004
Supervising Judge - Family Law (1998-2000, 2002)
Supervising Judge - Domestic Violence Court (1998-2000)
Supervising Judge - Criminal Division
Supervising Judge - Commissioners and ProTems
Grand Jury Judge 2005-2006
Trial Judge: Civil and criminal trials, over a dozen murder trials

Background & Professional Associations:

California Judges Association - Executive Board, Secretary-Treasurer
Deputy District Attorney - San Mateo County
Deputy District Attorney - Santa Clara County
Civil Associate - Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson & Horn
Vice President of Field Services - Adjustco Inc., a multi-line insurance service
Manager - Benefit Investigations, Inc., - Workers' Compensation investigations
Police Officer & Sergeant - San Carlos Police Department

Personal Information:

Married 30+ years, one adult son

Judicial Philosophy:

Like an umpire, I strive to be fair and consistent. While operating in a formal setting, I believe that the attorneys should be allowed to try their cases. Attorneys should show up on time and be prepared for their hearings or trial. Jurors' time is very valuable; once the jury has been informed of the trial schedule, counsel are expected to abide by that schedule and not inconvenience the jury.

Education:

J. D., Santa Clara Law School, 1973
B.A., Stanford University, 1969
M.S., San Jose State University, 1975

Appointment Date:

January 1991 by Governor Deukmejian

Assignments:

Current and Past:
Juvenile Delinquency, Dependency, Adoption & Juvenile Drug Court, General Civil, Adult Drug Court, General Criminal, Family and Domestic Violence Calendars

Background

Administrative Appeals Judge, Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, San Francisco
Private Practice as a commercial mediator and arbitrator from 1977 to 1988
Attorney, Department of Housing & Urban Development, Washington, D.C.
Planning and Zoning Counsel for the County of Santa Cruz, California

Personal Information:

Widower, father of three children

Education:

J. D., University of California, Los Angeles
B.A., Washington State University

Assignments:

Current and Past:
Supervising Judge of Commissioners & Judges Pro-Tem,
Bridges Program Judge,
Appellate Department Alternate Judge,
Criminal Presiding Judge,
Drug & Treatment Court Judge,
Trial and Settlement Judge

Background & Professional Associations:

Assistant Executive Director, San Mateo County Bar Association
Assistant Administrator, Private Defender Program
Assistant District Attorney, San Francisco County
Deputy District Attorney, San Mateo County

Education:

B.A., UCLA
J. D., University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

Background & Professional Associations:

Elected Presiding Judge of the San Mateo County Superior Court by his colleagues in 2004, Judge George A. Miram currently serves in that capacity. His term expires in December 2006. He is responsible for the day-to-day assignments and overall operation of the San Mateo County courts. Previously, Judge Miram served as assistant presiding judge for the calendar years 2003 and 2004.

Since his appointment to the San Mateo County bench in March 1995, George A. Miram has handled both criminal and civil assignments.

In 1996-2001, Judge Miram served as one of two civil case management judges for the San Mateo County Superior Court. This service included oversight of the appropriate dispute resolution function of the court, as well as settlement conference functions. Judge Miram has served as chair of the Multi-Option Alternate Dispute Resolution Program, a joint program of the San Mateo County Bar and the Superior Court. Judge Miram served as the courts' sole Law and Motion Judge for the calendar year 2002, deciding all pre-trial civil motions on cases in the San Mateo courts that year. Judge Miram currently heads the Jury Committee of the Superior Court and has served on the Board of Directors of the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center. Judge Miram also lectures in the Master's Degree Program in Public Administration at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont in the fields of Administrative and Labor Law.

In the arena of criminal law, Judge Miram is a co-founder of the Bridges Drug Treatment Program; a court sponsored program for recidivist offenders whose primary motivator is drugs. Further, Judge Miram has served as vice-president and board member of the San Mateo County Service League, dedicated to auxiliary services for the incarcerated and their families.

In the Domestic Violence arena, Judge Miram has served three years as a founding board member of CORA, the comprehensive San Mateo County Domestic Violence resource agency and its predecessor agency, Sor Juana Ines. Sor Juana Ines was a domestic violence resource center focusing on the Latino population.

Prior to his appointment to the bench, George Miram served as an attorney in the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office (1982-1985) and the San Mateo County Counsel's Office (1985-1995).

Education:

B.S., Vanderbilt University (1975, summa cum laude, Chancellor Alexander Heard Award, Phi Beta Kappa)
J. D., University of Tennessee (1977, 4th in class)

Appointment:

September 1998 by Governor Wilson

Assignments:

Current and Past:
Civil Law and Motion, General Trial (civil and criminal),
Single assignments to Complex Civil Cases,
Supervised Family Law, Domestic Violence Court, Drug Court,
Alternate Judge for Appellate Department

Legal Work/Business Background:

Civil litigation practice representing individuals and small businesses in Tennessee and California, (1977 - 1998)
Partner, Jackson, Mittlesteadt, Miller & Dugoni (and predecessor firms), Redwood Shores (1981- 1998)
Director, Borel Bank & Trust Company, San Mateo (1994-1998)

Additional Associations:

California Judges Association
Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Northern California Chapter (Member of Board of Governors, 2000-2002)
San Mateo County Bar Association (President, 1995; Director, 1989-1996)

Awards:

Trial Judge of the Year (2003), San Mateo County Trial Lawyers Association
William Nagle, Jr. Memorial Award (1998), San Mateo County Bar Association

Judicial Philosophy:

My investment up front on a case saves time and expense down the road.

Education:

J. D., Southern Methodist University School of Law, 1972
B. A., Southern Methodist University, 1969

Appointment Date:

December 1989

Assignments:

Current and Past:
General Trial,
Criminal Presiding Judge,
Criminal Supervising Judge,
Bridges Program Judge

Background & Professional Associations:

San Mateo County District Attorney's Office - 1976-1984
Civil and Criminal Private Practice - 1984-1989
Admitted to California Bar - June 1973

Personal Information:

Enjoys tennis and golf