John Merrick was elected Judge of the Malibu/Calabasas Judical District in 1964 and served on the bench until his retirement in 1986. Judge Merrick was also heavily involved in the community of Malibu from the time he moved there in the 1940s and started a number of important Malibu organizations. This collection contains a range of materials both in format and subject related to his professional life as Malibu's Judge and his work in the Malibu community.

John J. Merrick was born February 10, 1919 in New Haven, Connecticut the son of Irish immigrants. They soon moved to the Bronx in New York City where he grew up and eventually earned his degree in journalism and worked as a reported for the Associated Press. Merrick, like many men of his age at the time, felt the call to serve his country and enlisted in the U.S. Army in Februray 1941. He found himself stationed in Southern California at a tank destroyer school. Merrick attained the rank of Lieutenant and became commanding officer of a tank destroyer company.

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