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Justice Richard Neal was born into a family of lawyers, with his father being a law professor and his mother being an Irish girl from Arlington, Massachusetts. He attended the University of Chicago Laboratory High School and Harvard College, and then went to Boalt Hall Law School. After graduating, he took the bar exam and got a job with a law firm in Los Angeles, where he worked on anti-trust and price-fixing class action cases. He was even able to go to the Supreme Court to watch one of these cases be argued.

Justice Richard M. Mosk was born in 1939 in Los Angeles, California. His father was a young campaign worker for Culbert Olson, who was a candidate for governor of California, and his father eventually became executive secretary to the governor. Mosk grew up in Westwood on Warner Avenue and attended University Elementary School and Warner Avenue Elementary School. He was an only child and did not have many relatives around, but he did have a black friend named Lionel whose mother was a maid for a senior partner at a major law firm. Mosk's father was in the Coast Guard Reserve during World War II and eventually enlisted in the Army as a private. Mosk was a fan of sports and collected sports memorabilia, stamps, coins, and comic books. He was not particularly religious, but did get confirmed at University Synagogue. Mosk wrote letters to a Japanese boy named Shinzo Yoshida in junior high school, and they kept up their correspondence for over fifty years. Mosk's mother worked selling ties and eventually became a successful real estate broker. Mosk donated his collection of 3,500 sports programs to Stanford University.

Richard M. Sims III is an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District. He was appointed by Governor Brown Jr. in 1982 and has been confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments and the electorate multiple times since then. Before becoming a judge, he worked in private law practice and as an Assistant Executive Director of the San Francisco Committee on Crime. He has written several legal publications and has made significant decisions in cases such as Morgan Creek Residential v. Kemp and Kaufman & Broad Communities, Inc. v. Performance Plastering, Inc. He has a J.D. from Harvard University Law School and a B.A. from Amherst College. In his free time, he enjoys skiing, snowshoeing, gardening, hiking, and reading The New Yorker.

Richard John McAdams is an Associate Justice of the Sixth District Court of Appeal. He was appointed by Governor Brown Jr. in 1977, and was elected to the Superior Court in 1998. He has held various positions in the legal field, including private law practice, staff attorney/directing attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Santa Cruz County, and associate for Jarvis, Miller & Stender. He has also been involved in various organizations, such as the California Judges Association, the California Judicial Council, and the California Center for Judicial Education and Research. He received his J.D. from Hastings College of the Law, and his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Richard D. Fybel is an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division Three in Santa Ana, California. He was born and raised in Southern California and graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles (A.B. 1968) and the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law (J.D. 1971). He has received numerous awards for his public and community service, including the President's Award from the California Judges Association and the Award for Achievement in Public Service from the Public Interest Law Foundation of Chapman University School of Law. He has spoken on the subject of judicial ethics to various organizations and has written several articles on the subject. Justice Fybel is also a member of several boards and committees, including the Boards of Advisors of the Fowler School of Law and The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at Chapman University.

Richard C. Neal was a retired Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Seven. He was appointed to the newly-created position by Governor Wilson in 1997, and was confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments. He was also a Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court from 1992-1997. After retiring from the Court of Appeal in 2001, he joined JAMS as a mediator, arbitrator, and special master. He was a Republican and a Presbyterian, and enjoyed activities such as piano, reading, backpacking, skiing, scuba diving, running, and bicycling.

Richard Aldrich was appointed to the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Three by Governor Wilson in 1994. He had previously been a judge at the Superior Court in Ventura County, and had practiced civil litigation for 28 years. He was a member of many organizations, including the Judicial Council of California, International Academy of Trial Judges, and the American Board of Trial Advocates. He was also awarded the "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the "Jurist of the Year Award" by the California Judicial Council.

The California Appellate Court Legacy Project is an interview with two former justices, Steve Stone and Arthur Gilbert, about their colleague, Justice Richard Abbe. Abbe was a district attorney in Shasta County who was opposed to the death penalty and marijuana laws, and had strong views on the environment and politics. He had a unique childhood, as his father was a famous international photographer. Stone and Gilbert met Abbe for the first time at their confirmation hearing in 1982, and he was known for his mismatched clothing and long beard. Abbe was known for his independent thinking and disdain for fame. He slept in Rose Bird's chambers while looking for a place to live and once got lost in the stairwell of a building while going for a run. The three of them had the first day of oral argument in Santa Barbara, which was a big deal for the northern counties.

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.

Reuben Ortega is a retired Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Division One, Second Appellate District. He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1941, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He lived in a small house with his mother and grandparents that did not have indoor plumbing. He attended Valley High School in Albuquerque and then the University of New Mexico. After graduating, he and his wife moved to Washington, DC where he worked for the National Labor Relations Board and then the Veterans Administration while attending Georgetown Law School at night. In 1967, he accepted a job as a senior law clerk in the Los Angeles District Attorney's office and passed the bar in December of that year. He spent six years in the DA's office, prosecuting deadbeat fathers and trying cases in municipal court. In 1973, he left the DA's office and went into private practice.

Justice Reuben A. Ortega was appointed to the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division One in 1988 and retained by the electorate in 1994 for a 12 year term. He previously served as a Judge on the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, an Assistant District Attorney in Los Angeles County, a Commissioner of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, and a Referee of the same court. He also worked in private law practice and as a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles County. Justice Ortega was born in 1941 in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is a Republican and Roman Catholic. He enjoys horseback riding, computers, and music.