Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian retired effective April 30, 2025, after serving for more than 41 years as a judicial officer. She is most grateful to the Honorable Governor George Deukmejian for providing her with the opportunity to serve as a judicial officer. Justice Bamattre-Manoukian is very grateful to her family for their endless love and support. She is also grateful to her colleagues, research attorneys, judicial assistants, and the court staff for their collegiality, support, and excellent work over the years.
Justice Bamattre-Manoukian served as an Associate Justice on the Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District for more than 35 years. She participated in more than 10,300 appellate opinions, authoring over 3,800 of them.
Justice Bamattre-Manoukian previously served as a judge in the Santa Clara County Superior Court, the Santa Clara County Municipal Court, and the Orange County Municipal Court. Prior to serving as a judicial officer, she was a deputy district attorney in the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Justice Bamattre-Manoukian has mentored many law students throughout her judicial career and has participated in law school, court, and community outreach events to educate law students, lawyers, and members of the public about the legal system and the work of the court.
Justice Bamattre-Manoukian has a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles; a Masters degree in public administration from the University of Southern California; a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles; and a Ph.D. in public administration from the University of Southern California.
Justice Bamattre-Manoukian is deeply grateful for her wonderful judicial career and the wonderful opportunity to have served in the judicial branch with dedicated and brilliant jurists, lawyers, law students, court staff and officers assigned to the California Highway Patrol Judicial Protection Section.