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Retired justice Patricia D. Benke spent nearly four decades on the bench and authored more than 400 published appellate decisions. "When I retired, West's gave me volumes for everything I worked on, ...and there were six volumes of cases," Benke said with a chuckle. "And those are just the published ones."

A former San Diego County municipal and superior court judge, Benke worked for 35 years as an associate justice for the 4th District Court of Appeal before retiring in the summer of 2021.