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: Legal Pad | LARetired L.A. Judge J. Kimball Walker dies at 83
By Jason Siegel
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge J. Kimball Walker died last Thursday of a heart attack, the Metropolitan New-Enterprise reported. He was 83.
Walker was born in Casper, Wyoming and came to California as a Justice Department lawyer and became chief trial attorney for the claims department at the U.S. Attorney's Office in what is now the Central District of California. He opened a solo practice in Bellflower in 1953 and was mayor of the city from 1964-65. Governor Jerry Brown appointed him to the Los Cerritos Municipal Court in 1976 and promoted Walker to Los Angeles Superior Court in 1980, were he stayed before retiring in 1992.
Services will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 205 N. Fowler St. in Bishop.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).
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