Services Saturday for Ex-County Judge Celia Baker
A memorial service will be conducted Saturday for Celia Baker, who presided over a former city-operated Justice Court here in the late 1940s before going on to become an Orange County Municipal Court judge.
Baker died June 23 in Santa Rosa after a series of strokes, a daughter said. She was 81.
Baker was a resident of Huntington Beach since 1945 and had a law practice in the city before being appointed by the City Council to serve as a part-time judge at the former City Hall on Main Street.
In an interview in 1970, Baker quipped that she was appointed to the Justice Court by the City Council because she could type and save the city the cost of a law clerk.
She retired in the 1970s after serving more than 20 years on the bench, a daughter said.
Former Huntington Beach Mayor Norma Brandel Gibbs will preside over the memorial service that is scheduled for 1 p.m. at the chapel of the Church of Religious Science, 2205 Main St.
Baker is survived by daughters Linda Peterson of Huntington Beach and Carol Marshall of Santa Rosa and three grandsons.
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