Full Biography for Barton C. Gaut

Candidate for
Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 4 Division 2

Position

Justice, Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Two
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Personal

Married 42 years; four children; six grandchildren

Resident of Riverside County since October 1962

Served with U.S. Army, First Lieutenant, Infantry Branch, detailed to Counterintelligence Corp. (1957-1959)

Education

B.A., UCLA, 1957

Law Degree, University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), 1962

National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada, 1997

Judicial Education Courses at California Center for Judicial Education and Research

Date of Admission to Bar

1963

Professional Legal Background

Attorney with Riverside law firm of Best, Best & Krieger from October 1962 to November 1995. Specialized in complex civil litigation, general business, eminent domain, employment law, defamation defense, real property, title insurance defense, anti-trust, environmental litigation, and appellate litigation.

Judicial Experience

Appointed to Riverside Superior Court by Governor Pete Wilson, November 1995. Assigned to the civil law and motion and trial calendar. Appointed civil supervising judge in 1996.

Appointed to Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Two, by Governor Pete Wilson, May 1997.

Appointed member of Judicial Council state-wide task force to revise civil jury instructions, 1997

Professional Activities, Associations and Affliations

President, Riverside County Barristers and Riverside County Bar Association

Chairman, Riverside County Judicial Selection Committee

Board of Directors, Riverside Legal Aid Society

Panel member, seminar of Association of Business Trial Lawyers, on subject of jury voir dire

Author, chapter on jury instructions pertaining to fraud and deceit, California Forms of Jury Instructions (Matthew Bender)

Member, State Bar Committee on Court Congestion

Master, Leo A. Deegan Inn of Court

Lawyer representative to federal Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference

Member, California Judges' Association

Educational and Professional Honors and Awards

Phi Beta Kappa, awarded upon graduation from UCLA

Order of the Coif, awarded upon graduation from University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall)

Recipient of the Leo A. Deegan Award for excellence in litigation

Listed in Best Lawyers in America for business litigation