Marguerite Sweeney, An Applicants’ Attorney, Appointed By California Governor Brown To The Workers Compensation Appeals Board By Lonce LaMon - February 14, 2012
Marguerite Sweeney, a career applicants’ attorney, has been appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to serve on the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board. Sweeney has run her own law practice in Redding, California—the Law Office of Marguerite Sweeney—since 1990, and was an attorney at Sweeney and Sweeney from 1982 to 1989, and at Baker, Cornell, and Baumback from 1979 to 1982.
In 2007, Marguerite received the Applicants’ Attorney of the Year award from the State Bar of California Workers’ Compensation Section. She is a member of the California Applicants’ Attorney Association and the Redding Chamber of Commerce. She earned her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
This position requires Senate confirmation and the annual compensation is $128,109.00.