
Brad DeMeo administered the oath yesterday to Hon. "Pat Broderick possesses the best of all these qualities," Nadler said. 381 views, 32 likes, 4 loves, 2 comments, 3 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Empire College - School of Law: Hon. In recent years, Broderick has served as a temporary judge, gaining experience and displaying fairness, intelligence, integrity and community involvement, Presiding Judge Gary Nadler said.


Broderick helped maintain Empire's record of having the highest first-time state bar pass rate in the state, Watters said. He left after being appointed the school's fourth-ever dean, a position he held from 1997 to 2010. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. "We would tell him, &‘Hey are you going to be a lawyer or a professor?'" Watters said. He began teaching political science at Santa Rosa Junior College and torts at the law school. Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, who graduated six years earlier, and signed on with the Santa Rosa firm of O'Brien Watters & Davis. "It's a privilege to serve on such an outstanding bench," Broderick said after being sworn by Judge James Bertoli.īroderick went to Cardinal Newman High School and Santa Clara University before completing law school in 1987 at McGeorge in Sacramento. He will move into her very courtroom next to Empire College and handle civil trials, at a salary of $178,780.

On Monday, former commissioner Nancy Case Shaffer was sworn in as judge and on Tuesday Santa Rosa civil lawyer Brad DeMeo took the oath.Ĭriminal defense lawyer Jamie Thistlethwaite will be sworn in todayĪnd two other judicial officers take the bench next week.īroderick fills a vacancy created by the retirement of former colleague, Judge Elaine Rushing. The revelation came during the county's third judicial investiture this week.
