Sharon Majors-Lewis

Sharon Majors-Lewis was appointed to a judgeship in the San Diego County Superior Court in December 2010. Ms. Majors-Lewis has served as the Judicial Appointments Secretary for the Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from2007 to 2010; she was the first woman and first person of color to ever hold the position in California. She worked for the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office as a chief deputy district attorney from 2005 to 2007 and as a deputy district attorney from 1987 to 2005. Majors-Lewis served as an appellate attorney for Appellate Defenders, Inc. and as a sole practitioner from 1986 to 1987.

In 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, she was selected by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of the Top 100 Leading Lawyers in California. In January 2008, San Diego Magazine named her one of the top 50 People to Watch. Majors-Lewis received numerous other awards for her accomplishments as the Judicial Appointments Secretary for Governor Schwarzenegger. They include the Bernard Witkin Award for Civic Leadership & Excellence as an Attorney, by the Law Library Justice Foundation on March 4, 2010. An Assembly Resolution was presented to Ms. Majors-Lewis by Assemblyman Mike Davis for a lifetime of achievements and meritorious service to humanity on January 15, 2010.

Sharon Majors-Lewis graduated Magna Cum Laude from National University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1980. She obtained her Juris Doctor degree in 1985 from the National University School of Law, where she was a member of the Student Honors Advisory Program, and received American Jurisprudence Awards in Torts, Wills and Trusts, Domestic Relations and Administrative Law, and a Corpus Juris Secundum Award in labor relations. She was also an F. Lee Baily Moot Court Finalist

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