Earl Johnson, Jr.

Earl Johnson Jr. was appointed to a newly-created position as an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Seven by Governor Brown Jr. in 1982. He was confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments and the electorate to two 12-year terms in 1986 and 1998. He was a professor and associate professor at the University of Southern California Law Center, a director of the Legal Services Program, a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, and a founding president of the National Equal Justice Library. He has received numerous awards and memberships, and has authored and co-authored multiple books, articles, and book chapters. He has also authored numerous significant decisions relating to attorney fee awards, civil procedure, constitutional law, contracts, corporations, criminal and juvenile law, dependency, environmental law, evidence, family law, property and land finance law, remedies, taxation, and torts.