JUDGE FREDERICK P. HORN
Orange County Superior Court

He has been a judge of the Orange County Superior Court since 1993 and was a judge of the Orange County Municipal Court, Harbor Judicial District, from 1991 to 1993. From 2002 to 2006 he served as presiding judge of the Orange County Superior Court. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he was a prosecutor with the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office. He received his law degree from the University of West Los Angeles in 1974, where he wrote for and served as staff on the Law Review. Judge Horn was the Chair of California’s Trial Court Presiding Judges Advisory Committee of the California Judicial Council from 2002 to 2006. He is also a member of the faculty of the Judicial College, the New Judges Orientation Program and is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Continuing Judicial Studies Program. He is the Chair of California’s Commission on Judicial Performance. 

Updated February 27, 2008