Gordon Cologne

Justice Gordon Cologne was appointed to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division One by Governor Reagan in 1972. He had previously been a private law practice partner, a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, a California State Senator, a California State Assemblyman, and a Mayor and City Councilman. He was also the author of the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Act, which regulates issues permits and monitors discharges into surface and ground waters. Cologne retired from the bench in 1984 and went on to become an adjunct professor and special counsel. He was a Republican and Catholic.