Orange County’s public defender is set to retire next month after a 28-year career in the department.
Martin Schwarz joined the Public Defender’s Office in 1997 and took over as public defender in 2020. He’s slated to retire on July 11 after announcing his departure late last month.
“Serving as the Public Defender has been the honor of a lifetime and leaving this position is far and away the most difficult decision of my career,” Schwarz wrote in a letter to the Orange County Board of Supervisors on May 28. “To this amazing County, and this wonderful department, I owe everything.”…