Justice Sandra L. Margulies retired last week. She had been an associate justice in Division One since January 2002. Before her service on the Court of Appeal, she was for 14 years a judge on the Alameda County Superior Court. She has served on several Judicial Council advisory committees and other bodies, including the Task Force on Jury Instructions (1998-2005) and the Criminal Jury Instruction Advisory Committee (2006-11), which she also chaired. She served on the planning committee and as faculty for the California Judicial College and the New Judges Orientation Program. Justice Margulies participated in 3,307 decisions of the First District, and wrote opinions in 1,696 of those.
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