Rodney Melville

Rodney Melville (* 1941 in Douglas, Arizona) is an American judge who moved primarily by a criminal trial of the musician Michael Jackson in the public eye.

Life

Melville grew up in San Francisco, the son of a preacher and a teacher. After serving in the U.S. Navy on a submarine, he first then studied until 1965 at the San Diego State University and until 1968 at the Hastings College of the Law University of California jurisprudence. Thereafter, he worked in criminal and civil cases in the Registry Melville & Iwasko as a lawyer. He was certified as a particular lawyer for family law by the state. He then served two years as district attorney in San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office and he was in 1971 in Santa Maria in Santa Barbara County down. After rehab, he was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous and engaged even after the end of the visit of sessions for this association.

In 1987 he was appointed by Governor George Deukmejian to the judge at the Municipal Court in 1990 and appointed as a judge at the Santa Barbara County Superior Court, where he worked for 17 years. Since 2007, Melville is retired. Melville was during his service as a very fair judge, but led his processes with a firm hand.

During his tenure as a judge, he was involved among other things, instrumental in the establishment of the Chamber of abuse of drugs and other substances. From 1997 to 2000 he was a member of the board of the California Judges Association, received an award as The Chief Probation Officers of California 's Judicial Officer of the Year for 2001 and was awarded the The California Coalition for Mental Health, Outstanding Mental Health Advocate Award for the efforts to create a chamber for processes concerning mental health honored. In 2005 he received the John Rickard Judicial Services Award from the Santa Barbara County Bar Association for outstanding services to the judiciary in Santa Barbara County.

Rodney Melville was a judge in the criminal trial of Michael Jackson, in which the entertainer was acquitted on June 13, 2005, after one and a half years duration of the process in all 10 counts.