Daniel J. Kremer (November 21, 1937 - )
Presiding Justice, July 30, 1985 - July 31, 2003

Daniel J. Kremer was born in Olympia, Washington on November 21, 1937. He graduated from Everett High School in Washington State in 1956. His high school years were interrupted when he was a victim of one of the last polio epidemics of the 1950's. He attended Stanford University and obtained his law degree from Stanford University in 1963. Active in forensics, he was named best high school debater in Washington State in 1956, captained the Stanford debate team for two years and in 1960 won the oldest intercollegiate debate in the nation, the Joffre Debate between Stanford and the University of California. He was admitted to the bar in 1964. From 1964 to 1972 he was a deputy attorney general in the Sacramento office of the Attorney General. In 1972 he was named head of the Attorney General's San Diego office criminal division and in 1983 became Chief Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Attorney General's criminal division statewide. In 1983 Governor Deukmejian appointed him to the San Diego County Superior Court where he served in the court's civil, criminal, law and motion and juvenile departments. In July 1985, he was elevated to the Court of Appeal as presiding justice. Active in judicial administration, he chaired the Judicial Council's Committee on Criminal Trial Delay Reduction and the Council's Library Technology Committee. He served as a member of the Judicial Council from 1992 to 1994. While a Council member, he chaired the Council's Rules and Forms Committee and was co-chair of California's first Court Technology Committee. From 1998 to 2001, he chaired the Task Force on Court Facilities, a body created by the Legislature and charged with inventorying and evaluating every courthouse in California and addressing long-range governance issues for the judicial branch, culminating in legislation that Chief Justice Ronald M. George called "one of the most important judicial reforms in the past 100 years." In 2002 he received the Judicial Council's Jurist of the Year Award. He retired July 31, 2003 to pursue interests outside the law including opera, theater, auto racing, the study of canon law and especially grandchildren.

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