Judge to Address Law School Grads

Ventura County Superior Court Judge Melinda A. Johnson will serve as the keynote speaker when 36 graduates of the Ventura College of Law class of 1994 receive their degrees at 1:30 p.m. today.

About 325 family members are also expected to attend the event at the Poinsettia Pavilion on Foothill Road in Ventura. Johnson is the first woman presiding judge of the Superior Court bench in the county.

The graduates and their hometowns:

Agoura Hills: Victor Stephen Anderson.

Channel Islands: Tamara Harper Maran.

Camarillo: Anna Marie Camarena, Gerald Sutherland Garmon and Carl K. Gramberg.

Fillmore: Carolyn Ishida.

Moorpark: William Francis Shaw III.

Ojai: Linda L. Epstein, Carol Spenard Houck, Donna Jean Novarin.

Oxnard: Gilbert S. Maguire, Karen Leigh Stiehl and Allan Robert Young.

Santa Barbara: Kent Jackson Van Koughnet.

Santa Paula: John Kenneth Rounds.

Simi Valley: Gary E. Hopkins.

Thousand Oaks: Elisabetha Keeley Berry, Mary Ann Brozowski, Diane Carlson Goad, Claudia Lynn La Rose, Wayne W. Taylor.

Ventura: Roxanna F. Biejo, Deborah Brand, Robert Alan Chatenever, Susan Titus Collins, Donald Filipovich, Scott Montgomery Norman, Patrick Andrew Paul, Daniel Joseph Schmidt, Craig William Smith, Harvey B. Smith Jr., James E. Walker, Richard Wardle, William John Weilbacher Jr.

Westlake Village: Ronald K. Minnehan.

Woodland Hills: Laura Davis Whitefiled.