For those who have already renewed their GJAOC membership for 2018, Thank You!  For those who have yet to do so, please be on the look-out for an email from our email-blaster or from Membership coordinator, Alf Lyle.  Your membership is critical to helping the organization to remain vibrant and to fulfill its mission.  Please consider renewing your membership today!

Also, the organization is looking for volunteers to join the Board of Directors.  We have 2 open Board seats, and 1 open Officer position (that of Secretary).

If you are interested in joining the Board of Directors and thereby helping to set the direction of the organization, please contact Board President, Roy Baker at bakerrb3@cox.net

During the 7Dec17 luncheon,  Board of Directors members were sworn-in by outgoing GJAOC board member and former President, John Moohr.  The Board also took the opportunity of the luncheon to provide an update to membership about our activities during the past 12 months.

See some photos from the 7Dec17 luncheon

The latest newsletter is available.  Go to the Newsletters menu item and select the item under 2017 Q3.  We hope you enjoy it.

On June 1, 2017 approximately 49 GJAOC members and guests attended a luncheon where the Honorable Jeannie M. Joseph was our speaker.  She gave a talk entitled: “Federal Grand Jury vs. The State Grand Jury”. We learned a lot of interesting facts about the Federal Grand Jury system that stand in contrast to the California Grand Jury system. For example: Federal Grand Juries are not comprised of volunteers. Their panels are made up of voters who have received a jury summons.

At the same event, the GJAOC bid farewell to our board member and friend, Helen Alberts, most recently our membership coordinator.  Below are some photos from the event.

The Membership Chair is requesting feedback from members as to what’s working, and what’s not.

Please click here to read the message (which also went out as an email blast on 3May2017)

In lieu of a 2Q17 Newsletter, we proudly reproduce a part of the results of an effort of the Grand Jurors’ Association of Orange County in 1988.  At that time in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Orange County,  the organization undertook to re-create the lost, final report of the 1st Orange County Grand Jury of 1890 through research with local historians, newspaper archives and other resources.  The result is a fascinating look into an Orange County of the past.  We owe a debt of gratitude to the GJAOC members of 29 years ago for this valuable contribution to the history of Orange County.  Just click the here to go back in time…

(For those interested in reading the full 38 page reproduced 1890 report, the GJAOC currently has 4 physical copies for review, in addition to the OC Law Library which has one copy).