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Two attorneys named for court commisioner posts
Two lawyers have been selected to serve as commissioners for Ventura County Superior Court, filling a pair of vacancies recently created when commissioners Douglas W. Daily and Bruce A. Young were appointed to judgeships.
Ventura County Superior Court judges announced Thursday that they chose attorneys Kevin G. DeNoce and David R. Worley as the court's newest commissioners.
DeNoce is currently in private practice in Ventura, specializing in criminal cases.
He was a prosecutor with the District Attorney's Office from 1987 to 1996. There, he was the supervising attorney for the Appellate Division from 1992 to 1996.
According to a prepared statement issued by the Superior Court, DeNoce earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law.
DeNoce is past president of both the Ventura County Deputy District Attorney's Association and the Criminal Justice Attorney's Association of Ventura County. He received the Outstanding Prosecutor of the Year Award in 1988 from the Ventura County District Attorney's Office and the Ventura County Criminal Defense Bar Association's 2002 Joyce Yoshioka Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the criminal justice system.
Worley is currently a partner in the law firm of Wojkowski & Worley in Oxnard. He specializes in civil litigation.
Worley was a prosecutor for the Ventura County District Attorney's Office from 1981 through 1984.
He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Mesa Union School District.
Worley graduated with honors from California State College at Bakersfield. He also attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Worley earned his law degree at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.




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