Alumnus Jason Armand '05 (JD) Appointed to Judgeship by California Governor

Jason Armand '05 (JD) Appointed to Judgeship by California Governor

SAN DIEGO (February 6, 2023) – University of San Diego (USD) School of Law alumnus Jason Armand ‘05 (JD) was recently appointed to serve as a Judge on the Riverside County Superior Court by California Governor Gavin Newsom.

Armand has served as a Deputy District Attorney at the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office since 2007. He is the first to hold the newly funded trial judge position in the Riverside County Superior Court. Armand was one of 10 Superior Court judges appointed by Governor Newsom this month.

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About the University of San Diego School of Law

Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 30th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 28th nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.