Episode 152: Matthew Serratto ( Merced County District Attorney; Merced District 5 City Councilman) Merced, CA ("Rebuilding a City")

BIO: born in San Francisco, grew up in Burlingame, down the Peninsula from San Francisco.  Huge sports fan growing up -- 49ers, Giants, Warriors.  Went to high school in San Francisco.  Played baseball all through high school, won the team award voted on by the players his senior year.  Went to college at UC Davis in 2002, graduated with honors, majored in History, minored in English and War and Peace Studies.  Took a year off from school after college, taught English in Belgium for 2 months and Argentina for 5 months.  As a young man, worked as a Caddy at the Burlingame Country Club, at a sheet metal factory, and as a parks workers for the City of Burlingame Parks Department.  After he came from Argentina, he went to law school at UCLA, graduating in 2006 in the top third of his class.  he took the bar exam right after that, passed, and started working at the Merced DA's Office in 2007.  He has been there ever since, for 13 years.  In that time he has tried 64 jury trials, including 10 murder trials and a number of other life cases.  He was the lead Deputy DA on a major wiretap operation that won an FBI award for 2017 and was also named the State of California Prosecutor of the Year that same year for Rural/Medium Sized Counties.  He was elected to the Merced City Council in 2016 and am currently the Mayor Pro Tem. @Serratto2020 @MercedCountyDA [email protected]