J. Roger Myers
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 J. Roger Myers graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1963 with a BA degree in Political Science and English. He graduated in 1969 from the University of California Law School, Hastings College of Law. He joined the Ventura County District Attorney's office in 1969 and left in 1971 to enter private practice. He was a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War in 1965 and 1966 with a field artillery battery. Mr. Myers has an AV rating with Martindale-Hubbell, an international law directory, and is a past president of the Ventura County Bar Association and Tri-Counties Local Government Attorneys' Association. He served as a Master of the Jerome Berenson Chapter of the American Inns of Court. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank of Ventura until it was sold in September 2000. He currently serves as vice Chairman of County Commerce Bank.
Mr. Myers' practice areas are civil litigation, business, estate planning, wills and trust and probate. He has extensive municipal law experience in both litigation and transactional matters. From 1972 to 1973 he served as assistant general counsel to the Ventura Port District. In 1974, he served as interim general counsel. Since 1980 he has acted as Assistant City Attorney for Ojai and was appointed City Attorney for Fillmore in July of 1992 and served in that capacity until his recent retirement in December 2007 as full-time City Attorney. Mr. Myers has extensive experience in drafting resolutions, ordinances, contracts and other such municipal transactional matters and is the firm's primary advisor concerning personnel matters. He regularly advises the cities of Fillmore and Ojai on the Brown Act, Fair Political Practices Act and the Public Records Act. In 2003, he was retained by the Ventura Community College District to provide training on Brown Act issues.
Mr. Myers has served as special trial counsel for a number of municipalities, including Ojai, Redondo Beach, Oceanside, Ventura, Thousand Oaks, the Ventura Unified School District, the County of Madera and the Metropolitan Water District. Mr. Myers has tried more than 50 civil jury trials, including several direct condemnation cases. He has also tried over 100 civil court trials and appeared before many administrative law courts, city councils, county boards of supervisors and special district boards. Mr. Myers acted as special trial counsel in two major land use cases, Plamer v. Ojai and BIA v. Oceanside (consolidated with Del Oro Hills v. Oceanside).
Mr. Myers is active in community and civic affairs. He is the 2007 recipient of the Ben E. Nordman Public Service Award. This award is made yearly by the Ventura County Bar Association to "recognize outstanding community contributions by a Ventura County lawyer through charitable and public service activities." Mr. Myers has been a Rotarian for 35 years, is past chairman of the Board of Education of St. Paul's Episcopal Day School and past chairman of the Board of Directors of the Faria Beach Homeowners' Association. He has also served on the Board of Education for the Ojai Unified School District and he was a member of the Board of Monica Ros School in Ojai.
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