Orange
County
Biographies
HON. HOMER G. AMES
Appointed to the bench by Governor
Richardson in 1926, Hon. Homer G. Ames has since made a splendid record as
judge of the superior court of Orange County, now filling his second term of
six years. Practically his entire life
has been spent within the borders of Orange County, and it was in 1901 that he
was admitted to the California bar. He
was born in Madison County, Iowa, November 29, 1877, a son of Arthur W. and
Sarah W. (Walker) Ames, who came to the Golden state in 1887. The father died in 1920, but the mother is
still a resident of Santa Ana, California.
Homer G. Ames attended the public
schools of Santa Ana and subsequently entered the University of Southern
California, from which institution he was graduated in 1901 with the degree of
Bachelor of Laws. The same year he was
admitted to the bar of this state and began the general practice of law in
Santa Ana, where he engaged in the work of his chosen profession until 1910. He then formed a partnership with Richard
Melrose at Anaheim, California, where he continued in practice as a member of
the firm of Melrose & Ames until the retirement of his associate in
September, 1910, after which Mr. Ames practiced alone for a decade. On the expiration of that period, in 1920, he
joined T. L. McFadden, well known attorney of Anaheim, becoming senior member
of the firm of Ames & McFadden. In
1926, as stated above, Governor Richardson appointed him judge of the superior
court of Orange County as the successor of Judge R. Y. Williams, Orange County
pioneer, who had resigned his position on the bench. Judge Ames was chosen to the judgeship for
the six-year term at the primary election in the same year and was re-elected
for a second term of similar duration in 1932.
Possessing in marked degree the judicial temperament, he has given
entire satisfaction to the members of the bar and to the public at large. For a period of four years, beginning in
1903, he served as deputy district attorney of Orange County and later was city
attorney of Anaheim, California, for eleven years, from 1911 until 1922.
In 1910 Judge Ames as united in
marriage to Miss Harriet D. Wents and they make their
home in Anaheim. The Judge has attained
the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in
Masonry, is a member of the Mystic Shrine and is also a member of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, being past exalted ruler of the lodges
at Santa Ana and Anaheim. He is a man of
quiet, genial and unassuming disposition, very popular in both social and
professional circles of this part of the state.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 273-274, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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