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In 1993, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors created the Alternate Public Defender's (APD) Office in order to curb the costs in cases where the Public Defender had a conflict of interest. Bruce Hoffman was appointed the first Alternate Public Defender and upon his retirement in 2002 was succeeded by his then Chief Deputy Janice Fukai. [12]
From 2006 to 2018, she served as a deputy federal public defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Central District of California. [3] On December 7, 2018, Governor Jerry Brown appointed Hwang to serve as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court .
In 2018, Garcia was selected by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to be the Public Defender for Los Angeles County. [7] Garcia is the first Latino and youngest appointed Public Defender in the County." When California Governor Gavin Newsom imposed a moratorium on the death penalty, Garcia supported the move.
García, who was elected Los Angeles County public defender in 2018, is also the first Mexican American to hold that position in the office’s 110-year history. He recalled that before records ...
Los Angeles County has moved a program providing attorneys to poor criminal defendants from the L.A. County Bar Assn. to the overworked office of the public defender.
Originally known as the Criminal Courts Building, [4] in 2002 it was renamed the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, after Clara S. Foltz, the first female lawyer on the West Coast of the United States (and also the first person to propose the creation of a public defender's office).
Gordon Proudfoot was both a lawyer and a disc jockey. Before the internet provided quick answers to almost any kinds of questions, Gordon ran an “dial-a-law” call-in tape service where ...
Georgia Bullock (1913): [27] [28] First female judge in Los Angeles County, California (1931) May Darlington Lahey (1914): [412] First female (who was Australian) to serve as the Presiding Judge of the Los Angeles Municipal Court (c. 1943) Mabel Walker Willebrandt (1917): [413] First female Public Defender of Los Angeles County, California (c ...