Edwin Beach 6063

Justice Edwin Beach was born in Lima, Peru in 1924 and moved to the United States in 1930 with his mother and sister. He served in the Army during World War II and then attended USC Law School. After graduating, he worked at Port Hueneme as a civilian employee while waiting for his bar results. He passed the bar in 1950, along with two other Ventura County residents, Nagao Fujita and Fred Ferro. He went on to become an Associate Justice of the Second District Court of Appeal, Division Two, and the presiding justice of that division.