Countywide : Judge Is Elevated to Superior Court
Gov. George Deukmejian on Thursday elevated Orange County Municipal Judge Frank F. Fasel to the Orange County Superior Court.
Fasel, 51, of San Juan Capistrano, is a former Orange County deputy district attorney and Superior Court commissioner. He will fill the seat vacated by Judge Gary L. Taylor, who was appointed to the federal court earlier this year, the governor’s office announced.
“He’s a straight shooter who will be good for both sides of the council table,” said Marshall M. Schulman, a Santa Ana criminal attorney who has known Fasel since his days in the district attorney’s office.
“He certainly deserves the elevation,” Schulman said Thursday. “I’ve never heard anybody say a bad word about him.”
Fasel had been a commissioner for the Orange County Superior Court from 1980 to 1989, when he was appointed to the West Judicial District municipal court.
He is also a former Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, and worked as a deputy district attorney in Orange County from 1975 to 1979, the governor’s office said. From 1979 to 1980, he was an attorney in the Santa Ana firm of Bunt & Fasel.
Fasel graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1961 and earned a law degree from the University of San Diego in 1968.
His new judgeship pays $94,344 a year, the governor’s office said.
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