Jeffrey Ferguson biography: 13 things about Orange County Superior Court judge from Anaheim, California

Jeffrey Malcolm Ferguson is an American judge from Anaheim Hills, Anaheim, Orange County, California, United States. He was 7 years older than his wife Sheryl Ferguson.

Raised in the U.S. Navy, Jeffrey has travelled to different countries with his parents including China, Japan and the Philippines. His father Albert Ferguson served aboard the USS Indianapolis during World War 2 and served aboard a destroyer during the Korean War.

Albert retired in the 1960s. Jeffrey worked as the IMAGERY Advertising and Creative Services creative director from the 1970s to the 1980s.

Jeffrey went to Western High School in Parma, Michigan, USA. His son Phillip Ferguson went to Servite High School in Anaheim.

Aside from Anaheim, Jeffrey has lived in other parts of California including Kerman, Palm Springs, Rossmoor, Cypress and Lancaster. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. In 1973, he graduated from the University of California at Irvine in Irvine, California with a bachelor’s degree in biology.
2. In 1982, he earned his Juris Doctor from the Western State University College of Law in Irvine. He graduated cum laude.
3. In 1983, he began his law career.
4. In 1986, his son Kevin M. Ferguson was born.
5. On October 26, 1996, he and Sheryl got married.
6. On November 25, 2013, he, Sheryl and Phillip visited Calico Ghost Town Regional Park. 36600 Ghost Town Road, Yermo, CA
7. On June 3, 2014, he defeated Carmen Luege in the primary election to the Superior Court of Orange County.
8. In 2015, he assumed office as a judge of the Superior Court of Orange County. In the same year, Sheryl gave birth to Phillip.
9. On June 24, 2018, he and Sheryl visited the Inverness Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court in Inverness, Scotland.
10. On March 3, 2020, he was reelected for judge of the Superior Court of Orange County.
11. On December 6, 2022, he wrote on Facebook, “My dear friend Vill Harmon posted this evening about the tragedy of Alzheimers and other forms of progressing dementia. My personal family hasn’t experienced, to my knowledge, this gradual but relentless evaporation of personality and awareness in a loved one. But experiencing someone you care deeply about, slowly but inexorably fade away before your eyes, as their memory of the moment becomes transparent and eventually they see through you… there are no words. Nor can I imagine the fear and frustration of the afflicted who, in the beginning stages, must realize what is beginning to take them away and isolate them into a forbidding darkness. I just don’t know.”
12. At 2:58 p.m. on August 3, 2023, he shared a Facebook photo of Sheryl, which he posted on August 3, 2013. At around 8:00 p.m. on August 3, 2023, he allegedly fatally shot her in their residence in Anaheim Hills. Phillip was inside the residence and was not injured.
13. He was 72 years old when he was released from the Anaheim Police Department’s detention facility on August 4, 2023. He posted a $1 million .