Rackauckas won the support of 59% of Orange County voters in the June 1998 election for District Attorney against Deputy District Attorney Wally Wade and took office in January 1999. Rackauckas served as a municipal court judge until March 1993, when Governor Pete Wilson appointed him a Superior Court judge, a post in which he served until becoming District Attorney of Orange County. Rackauckas left private practice in 1990 when he was appointed by California Governor George Deukmejian to be a municipal court judge. While in private practice, Rackauckas authored Proposition 115, which appeared on the June 1990 ballot. In 1972, Rackauckas left the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services to become a Deputy District Attorney in the Orange County District Attorney's Office, where he served until leaving in 1988 to enter private practice. He graduated from Loyola in 1971, earning his Juris Doctor degree. Īfter earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from CSULB in 1968, Rackauckas attended Loyola Law School while simultaneously serving as a social worker in the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services. After completing his service in the army, he attended California State University, Long Beach from 1964–1968 while simultaneously serving in the United States Army Reserve. Rackauckas served in the United States Army as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division from 1962 to 1964. He was born in the family of Mexican-American Maria Socorro Limón and Anthony Joseph Rackauckas, whose family had arrived from Lithuania. (born March 18, 1943) is a former District Attorney of Orange County, California and a former Superior Court judge.Īfter losing his reelection bid for a sixth term as Orange County DA in 2018, Rackauckas has come under fire for allegedly fabricating evidence related to a rape and kidnapping case. To search by only Last Name or by Business Name place an asterisk (*) into the First Name search box and type the Last Name or Business Name into the Last Name search box.Anthony Joseph Rackauckas Jr.Enter part of a name and then place an asterisk (*) at the end and the system will search for similar names and variations.
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