Barton C. Gaut, Associate Justice

Name: Barton C. Gaut

Position: Justice, Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Two

• Married 42 years; four children; six grandchildren
• Resident of Riverside County since October 1962
• Served with U.S. Army, First Lieutenant, Infantry Branch, detailed to Counterintelligence Corp. (1957-1959)

• B.A., UCLA, 1957
• Law Degree, University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), 1962
• National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada, 1997
• Judicial Education Courses at California Center for Judicial Education and Research

• 1963

• Attorney with Riverside law firm of Best, Best & Krieger from October 1962 to November 1995. Specialized in complex civil litigation, general business, eminent domain, employment law, defamation defense, real property, title insurance defense, anti-trust, environmental litigation, and appellate litigation.

• Appointed to Riverside Superior Court by Governor Pete Wilson, November 1995. Assigned to the civil law and motion and trial calendar. Appointed civil supervising judge in 1996.
• Appointed to Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Two, by Governor Pete Wilson, May 1997.
• Appointed member of Judicial Council state-wide task force to revise civil jury instructions, 1997

• President, Riverside County Barristers and Riverside County Bar Association
• Chairman, Riverside County Judicial Selection Committee
• Board of Directors, Riverside Legal Aid Society
• Panel member, seminar of Association of Business Trial Lawyers, on subject of jury voir dire
• Author, chapter on jury instructions pertaining to fraud and deceit, California Forms of Jury Instructions (Matthew Bender)
• Member, State Bar Committee on Court Congestion
• Master, Leo A. Deegan Inn of Court
• Lawyer representative to federal Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference
• Member, California Judges' Association

• Phi Beta Kappa, awarded upon graduation from UCLA
• Order of the Coif, awarded upon graduation from University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall)
• Recipient of the Leo A. Deegan Award for excellence in litigation
• Listed in Best Lawyers in America for business litigation