Jack DeMeo, attorney and civic leader, dies at 82

Oct 10, 2016 527

Jack DeMeo, a preeminent Sonoma County trial attorney who grew his family's Depression-era law practice and became renowned as much for his community leadership and civility as for his dogged brilliance in the courtroom, died Thursday at his Santa Rosa home. He was 82.

DeMeo, a native son of Santa Rosa, practiced law in the city for 58 years and only in recent months was forced to ease back from work by the effects of myeloma, a cancer of the blood.

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