The Hon. Daniel B. McNerney (Ret.) served as a judge for the Orange County Superior Court in California. McNerney was elected to the bench on November 7, 2000. He retired in 2016.
Prior to his election, McNerney worked as a senior deputy district attorney in the Orange County District Attorney’s Office for fifteen years. During this time, he also performed stints as a special assistant United States attorney in the Office of the United States Attorney for the Central District of California.
McNerney earned a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University in 1975. He then completed a J.D. at Western State College of Law in 1986.
He was born in Detroit, Michigan.