Deukmejian Names Santa Ana Attorney to Municipal Court
Gov. George Deukmejian on Wednesday appointed a Santa Ana attorney to fill a vacancy on the Orange County Municipal Court bench.
The governor named Marjorie Laird Carter of Newport Beach to succeed Judge James Gray, who was promoted earlier to the Superior Court.
“I’m extremely excited and thrilled that this happened,” Carter said. “I’m floating on air.”
The 47-year-old attorney has been a member of the Santa Ana law firm of Stafford, Ballog & Sullivan since 1989. She had her own law office in Newport Beach from 1980 to 1989.
Carter has specialized in business and probate law with a background in civil litigation.
Carter is now the president of California Women Lawyers and is on the board of the Constitutional Rights Foundation, an educational program for high school students.
She was an instructor at American Law School in Brea from 1980 to 1983.
Carter received her undergraduate degree at Chapman College in Orange and taught elementary school in Yorba Linda before earning a law degree.
She will serve in the Central Orange County Judicial District.
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