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Judges Rice, Lewis Set July Retirement Dates
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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Los Angeles Superior Court Judges Stuart M. Rice and Jacqueline Lewis will officially retire next month.
Rice’s last actual day on the bench is today and Lewis departed the court last Wednesday. They will use earned vacation days before going into retirement from the bench—Lewis on July 10 and Rice on July 28.
For Rice, his retirement date marks 20 years plus one day from the time he was appointed to his post by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. At the time, he was a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner, having been elected by judges on March 1, 2003.
He served as 2017/2018 president of the California Judges Association, Before that, he was president of the Long Beach Barristers in 1983, president of the California Young lawyers Association in 1987, president of the Long Beach Bar Association in 2000, and president of the California Court Commissioners Association in 2005
Currently, he is president of the California Judges Foundation.
His law degree is from Northeastern University.
Lewis served 11 years as a part-time referee and six years as a commissioner of the Superior Court before being elected to a judgeship in 2014. She served throughout her judicial career in the Juvenile Court.
In 2004, she created the “Dependency Case Law Index” which summarizes appellate court decisions in dependency cases.
She earned her law segree at the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall.
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