E. THOMAS DUNN, JR. is a licensed legal practitioner in Anaheim, California, with more than 40 years of experience handling criminal trials, civil & criminal writs, appeals, and law & motion matters. The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization has certified him as a specialist in Criminal Law, & he was also certified as a specialist in Appellate Law from 2003 until January 2024.In 2001, after two decades of public service, Mr. Dunn joined Manning & Marder, Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez in Los Angeles, where he handled complex fraud & civil rights cases in state & federal courts. Prior to that, he was a Senior Judicial Attorney for the California Court of Appeal in Santa Ana, where he served as Lead Appellate Counsel in the Chambers of Justice William W. Bedsworth for four years, drafting more than 120 opinions for the court. Before that, Mr. Dunn was a Senior Deputy District Attorney for Orange County, where he successfully prosecuted cases for 12 years, and he served for 2 years as a Deputy Attorney General, representing the district attorneys of all 58 California counties in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.As a prosecutor, Mr. Dunn had an exemplary trial record, achieving a 100% conviction rate in all his felony trials. But he is most recognized for his special skill as an appellate lawyer, having begun his legal career by winning his first case—Hicks v. Feiock (1988) 485 U.S. 624—in the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Dunn has many published opinions to his credit, including In re Feiock (1989) 214 Cal.App.3d 141, which changed the law to make it possible for single parents to enforce child support awards by way of contempt, & the landmark decision of the California Supreme Court in Tobe v. City of Santa Ana (1995) 9 Cal.4th 1069, where the Court upheld the city’s anti-camping ordinance against constitutional attack. He won published reversals for his clients in People v. Aldana (2012) 206 Cal.App.4th 1247 [reversing a conviction for misappropriation of public funds] & State v. Febuary (2012) 253 Or.App.658 [292 P.3d 604] [reversing a conviction due to admission of unduly prejudicial evidence].Mr. Dunn served as an Associate and Adjunct Professor of Law at four Southern California law schools over a period of 21 years, and he is currently teaching in the online master's programs in Public Administration and Criminal Justice at Indiana Wesleyan University and Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio.