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From 1997 to 2014, she was a Deputy District Attorney in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. From 2015 to 2025, she served as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. From 2018 to 2019, she was an associate justice pro tem on the California Court of Appeal after being appointed by then Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye ...
John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird) (c. 1840s): [3] First Native American lawyer in California; R.C.O. Benjamin (1884): [4] [5] First African American male lawyer in California; Hong Yen Chang (1888): [6] First Chinese American male lawyer in the U.S., but was denied the right to practice law in California [7]
In 1961, California Assemblyman John A. Busterud proposed to expand the power of the Commission to require its approval for the Governor to appoint judges, [4] which was endorsed by Caspar Weinberger. [5] A bill to that effect was introduced in 1963. [6] The Commission has been criticized by various groups since shortly after its creation. [7]
This includes Judge Dena M. Coggins, the first Black and Asian American woman to serve as a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, which covers Sacramento ...
The State Bar's predecessor was a voluntary state bar association known as the California Bar Association. [8]: xiii The leader of the effort to establish an integrated (official) bar was Judge Jeremiah F. Sullivan, who first proposed the concept at the California Bar Association's Santa Barbara convention in September 1917, and provided the California Bar Association with a copy of a Quebec ...
Mendez worked in private practice in California from 1980 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1992. Between 1984 and 1986, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. From 1992 to 1993, he was the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. In 1993, Mendez again returned to private practice.
From 1995 to 1998, she was a special assistant at the United States Commission on Civil Rights in Los Angeles; from 1998 to 2000, she was a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C.; from 2000 to 2006, she served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.
The 149th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is over for another year, but there’s still plenty to know about it. In 2025 it ran on February 8th, 10th, and 11th and made its returning to ...