Bobby Neil Krug

Bob was born in Hinton, Oklahoma, to George and Sarah Krug. At a young age, he moved with his family to Southern California, eventually settling in Redlands where he was raised and educated.

After graduating from high school, he worked with his dad in the body shop at Lange & Runkel Chevrolet in Redlands. He then spent four years in the United States Navy during the Korean Conflict, obtaining the rank of Hospital Corpsman First Class.

He took his undergraduate work at Walla Walla College in eastern Washington from 1956 to 1959, receiving his B.A. degree in business administration. He subsequently attended College of the Law at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he received his JD degree in 1962.

He took the California Bar Examination in July 1962 and was admitted to practice in January 1963.

In October of 1962, while awaiting his bar results, he began employment with the District Attorney’s Office of San Bernardino County where he “spent three months reading Fricke’s work on Criminal Law and Procedure.” During this time, he co-prosecuted, along with then Assistant District Attorney Don Turner, the infamous

Lucille Miller murder trial.

He was subsequently hired and employed as a Deputy District Attorney for the County of San Bernardino from January 1963 to January 1967. In 1967, he left the District Attorney’s Office and opened a private practice in Redlands, where he maintained a sole general practice until January 1979.

In December of 1978 he was appointed by then Governor Jerry Brown to the

San Bernardino County Superior Court bench. In December of 1978 he was officially sworn in by then Presiding Judge Joseph B. Campbell, with the formal ceremony being held on January 9, 1979.

He spent his first eight years on the bench in what was then Department 6, replacing Judge Matt Kearney, who had suffered an untimely death. While sitting in Department 6, he had the distinction of presiding over the 18-month-long trial in the matter of People vs. Wayne Burton, et al, a complicated property fraud case. He then moved to what was at the time designated as Department 1. (Departments 1, 2, and 4 were the original courtrooms in the courthouse when it was built in 1926.)

He remained in Department 1 (subsequently redesignated Department 16) for several years hearing mainly long-cause matters. He officially retired in 1998 and subsequently sat on assignment, ultimately leaving the bench in 2007.

Bob was a member of the Redlands Seventh-day Adventist Church for over 75 years.

He is survived by his family, Anita Krug, Kerry Schmidt, Kenneth Schmidt, Kristin Krug-Schmidt, and Nancy Modglin, and countless colleagues and friends.

There are no services planned at this time.