A Graduate of Chico State and with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Public Administration.

A Graduate of Lincoln Law School of Sacramento with a Juris Doctor Degree.

A veteran of the United States Army, first as an enlisted man and then commissioned as an officer.  He is a Vietnam veteran and a member of the Vietnam Veteran Association, Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion.

Legal Experience as a police officer and investigator with the Redding Police Deparment and a criminal investigator and a Deputy District Attorney with the Sacramento District Attorney’s Office. 

Elected as the Amador County District Attorney and retired 1999.

Admitted to the California State Bar in 1988 and licensed to practice before the California Supreme Court as well as all Superior Courts in the State of California.

Diversity of Experience

First entering the military in 1967 followed by law enforcement in 1970, Steve has a diversity of experience that few attorney’s will ever experience.  It is this experience that serves the basis of knowledge for dealing with each client.  Experience that exceeds that which any college or law school classroom could ever possibly convey.  So often Steve has found that ‘life’s experiences’ are important in not only understanding the impact in legal cases for people but also in explaining our legal system in a manner that people can understand.