Richard Abbe

Richard Abbe was a Justice of the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Six, appointed by Governor Brown Jr. in 1982. Prior to this, he was a Judge of the Superior Court in Shasta County from 1965-1982, and a District Attorney and Deputy District Attorney from 1959-1965. He was admitted to the California Bar in 1954 and earned his LL.B. in 1953 from Hastings College of the Law. He served in the US Navy during World War II from 1943-1946. He was married to Pauline Kirkpatrick in 1953 and had two children and two stepchildren. He was a Democrat and enjoyed playing tennis, bicycling, birding, skiing, and reading.