Herbert L. Ashby

Herbert L. Ashby was appointed by Governor Ronald Reagan in 1972 to be a retired associate justice of the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Five. He was also an assistant district attorney for Ventura County, the county's first county counsel, and chief assistant attorney general for the State of California. He was a member of the State Bar of California and New Mexico, and wrote more than 500 published opinions. He served in the U.S. Army from 1953-55, and earned his J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1958, where he was on the Dean's Honor Roll and won the Nathan Burkam Award for Copyright Law. He also earned a B.A. from the University of New Mexico in 1952.