Victor Bianchini

Bianchini served as a judge, for both the state and federal courts continuously for over 48 years, during which period he was honored numerous times.

Bianchini is a decorated United States Marine Corps colonel with 31 years of service, active and reserve.

He has qualified for nine Veterans World Championships, and has finished sixth, seventh, and tenth twice, in individual competition.

[9] In addition to his extensive part-time duties on the federal bench, where he settled complex civil cases, prisoner civil rights cases, decided writs of habeas corpus and Social Security disability appeals cases until the end of 2021, Bianchini continues to practice as a private neutral mediator and arbitrator for Signature Resolution,[10] and prior to that he served a similar role for almost over 17 years for a different mediation and arbitration service (2002–2007, 2012–2024),.

[23] Bianchini was inducted by the San Diego High School (SDHS) Alumni Association to its "Wall of Honor in 2005.

He was named the Poway School District "Volunteer of the Year" in 2007 for service as the debate and moot court coach for Mt.

He also volunteered for service as an AAU boxing referee for the Community Youth Athletic Association (previously, the Chicano Athletic Association) from 1978 to 1980, and discontinued when the head coach and executive director, Junior Robles, was killed in a tragic airplane crash in Poland carrying the U.S. Boxing Team.

Immediately after his release from Marine Corps active service in 1967, he served as a volunteer at Kibbutz Ein Gev, Tiberias, Israel for approximately six months prior to entering into private law practice in the U.S. Bianchini is the immediate past chairman of the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum's Historical Foundation, leaving his position on September 15, 2022.

[34] He served as the president of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Historical Foundation from 2007 to 2010; is the past vice chair of the Veterans Village of San Diego (VVSD), as well as life member and former director on the Marine Corps Reserve Association governing board, from which he resigned in 2021.

Bianchini is a director on board of Kraemer Endowment Foundation supporting the St. Madeliene Sophie's Sanctuary for Disabled Adults,[36] has been an advisor to the Huntington Disease Youth Organization (HDYO) and is on the advisory board of the Jerusalem Foundation, which supports the Israeli Tisch Biblical Jerusalem Zoo[37] and youth outreach, San Diego Chapter.

He also served as the Chairman of the University of San Diego School of Law (USD) Board of Visitors for the years 1978 and 1979.

In connection with a Rule of Law teaching team from the National Judicial College, Bianchini lectured in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan by way of Moscow in the 1990s.

In addition, he held positions on the faculty of the California Continuing Judicial Studies Program (CJER) (1987–1998).

Immediately prior to his retirement from the superior court in 2002, he was selected by the U.S. State Department to serve, during a leave of absence from his Superior Court duties, as a Senior Fulbright Scholar as part of the Fulbright Program to the Sub-Saharan African country of Eritrea, where he served as consultant to the Minister of Justice, wrote the judiciary's Code of Conduct, crafted a 2,000-page judicial education syllabus for its National Judiciary, and taught South African Law to a select group of Eritrean judges.

[42] He is a former owner of a Beechcraft Bonanza, and holds commercial, multi-engine, instrument, and helicopter licenses, and is a rated captain in the Cessna Citation C500.

[43] Bianchini began the sport of sabre fencing at the age of 72 in 2010, and became a three-time United States National Champion (2012, 2021, and 2022), a four-time North American Champion (2019–2021), a two-time World Sabre Fencing Team champion gold medalist in Veterans Fencing in Varna, Bulgaria in 2013, and Debrecen, Hungary in 2014, a Veteran World Sabre Team Bronze medalist In Stralsund, Germany in 2016, and a Veteran World Team Silver medalist in Maribor, Slovenia in 2017.

[44] In 2013, he qualified for the USA Fencing Team to the World Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem, Israel and competing in the 40 year-old division at the age of 75 he won 3rd place Bronze.

In 2019 he served as the USA Team Fencing Coach for the European Maccabiah Games for Juniors and Cadets, held in Budapest, Hungary.

Victor Bianchini served for 31 years in the United States Marine Corps, active and reserve, retiring as a colonel.

From 1971 to 1981, he served in numerous summertime assignments at Headquarters Marine Corps, the board for Correction of Naval Records, acting Staff Judge Advocate (SJA) at MCRD San Diego and Marine Corps Forces, Pacific (Camp Smith).

In 1987, he served as a special staff officer, Marine Corps Reserve Support Command (MCRSC) in Overland Park, Kansas.

In 1988 through 1991, he served as the deputy inspector general, United States European Command (USEUCOM) in Vaihingen, Germany.

[52] Bianchini's formal military education includes the United States Marne Corps Tank and Amphibious Tractor Course at Camp Pendleton, California, 1961, the United States Army Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia, 1963, his 4th Force Reconnaissance Unit's jump-master course 1964, the Marine Corps Officer's Basic School 1964-1965, Naval Justice School, (West Coast Session, Camp Pendleton) 1965, the MACV Civil Affairs Advisors Officer Orientation Course, Saigon, Vietnam 1965, Command & Staff College, Phase I, Quantico, Virginia 1974, Army Military Judges Course at the University of Virginia and was certified as a military trial judge for military courts-martial 1984, and the NATO Senior Officers' Orientation Course, Oberamagau, Germany 1988.

Colonel Victor Bianchini 1993
World Championships Team Bronze 2016, Stralsund, Germany