After a 47-year legal career, Judge Barton Gaut ’62 of the California Court of Appeal’s Fourth Appellate District will retire at the end of February. In 12 years at the Court of Appeal, Gaut authored about 1,900 opinions. Previously, he spent 33 years at Best Best & Krieger, specializing in complex civil trial and appellate litigation, and two years as a Riverside County Superior Court judge. A past president of the Riverside County Bar Association, Gaut was a regular Best Lawyers of America entry in business litigation. Manuel Ramirez, the presiding justice of Gaut’s court, describes him as “hardworking, productive, and always available … principled but open to a different perspective.”