Edward J. O’Connor; Ex-Superior Court Judge

Edward J. O’Connor, 84, an athlete and a Los Angeles Superior Court judge who served as a jurist from 1962 until his retirement in 1978. O’Connor, who began skipping rope when he was a Golden Gloves welterweight and a pre-law student at the University of North Dakota in the early 1930s, was still jumping rope daily when he was well into his 70s. He publicly preached the value of exercise in reducing stress. Before his appointment to the bench, he had been a special assistant to U.S. Atty. Gen. Tom Clark in Washington, and an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, and had served with the old Bureau of Internal Revenue, the Department of Justice and the Treasury Department and been in private practice. On Monday in Brentwood.