Biography
Hon. Jonathan H. Cannon (Ret.) was on the bench for 20 years. He was a member of the Orange County Family Law trial judge panel for over eight years and the Supervising Judge of that panel for four years.
Judge Cannon taught and lectured extensively in all areas of family law to a wide variety of groups including the CEB (Continuing Education of the Bar), Rutter Group, and the California Judges Association. He created and participated in a unique “pod” program wherein cases were assigned to a single judge for all purposes. Two other judicial officers were assigned to the single judge for purposes of settlement and/or trial for either long cause or short cause cases. The system resulted in the resolution of hundreds of family law cases.
Representative Matters
- Accounting, interpretation, and enforceability of pre-nuptial and marital settlement agreements, pensions, and QDRO’s
- Determination of Date of Separation
- Determination of spousal support, child support, and attorney’s fees
- Division of real and personal property including resolving issues of valuation, terms of selling the family home, and disbursement of proceeds
- Identification and allocation of community property and community debt
- Identification of separate property and reimbursement of separate property interests in the marital property
- Issues involving income and valuation of professional practices, including medical, legal and accounting practices
- Issues involving public access to family law court file
- Matters involving the extensive use of expert testimony on issues of custody, property valuation (real and personal), accounting, and appraisals of businesses owned by a marital partner
- Value of spouse’s use of community property
- California Judges Association, 1987-present
- Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Long Beach Bar Association, Orange County Trial Lawyers Association
- Past President, Orange County Division of the California League of Cities
ADR Profile
- "Coming Clean," ADR Profile, Daily Journal, January 2014
- Judge, Superior Court, Orange County, 1989-2007
- Supervising Judge, Family Law Court, four years
- Member, Complex Civil Panel, five years
- Judge, Municipal Court, West Orange County Judicial District, 1987-1989
- Mayor, Garden Grove, 1980-1987
- Vice Chairman, Garden Grove Redevelopment Agency, 1978-1987
- City Councilman, City of Garden Grove, 1978-1980
- Partner, Grisham & Cannon, Orange, CA, 1982-1987
- Partner, Grisham, Vandenburg, Nott, Conway & Cannon, Long Beach, CA, 1975-1982
- Associate, Grisham, Vandenburg, Nott & Conway, 1973-1975
- Deputy City Prosecutor, Long Beach, CA, 1971-1973
- J.D., Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, CA
Counsel Comments
- “It was like a business partnership splitting up. He exhibited a real ability to get to some of the factual and legal issues pretty quickly. In pretty quick order, he was able to size up the real needs and desires [of the couple] maybe better than they were able to express.”
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