Rodney Melville

Rodney Scott Melville is a presiding judge in Santa Barbara County's superior court. He was the judge in Michael Jackson's 2005 child molestion trial, in which Jackson was acquitted. Biography Melville was born in 1941 and studied at San Diego State University and Hastings College of the Law, University of California. Melville, now living in Sacramento, California, became an attorney for the firm Melville & Iwasko and became a state certified specialist in family law. Melville served as a deputy district attorney in the San Bernardino County district attorney's office for two years. In 1987, Melville was appointed to the municipal court bench. After three years he was promoted to the superior court.