Wednesday, June 29, 2016
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Brown Names 18 to Superior Courts, Seven in Los Angeles
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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MARIA DAVALOS Deputy District Attorney |
DEAN HANSELL Attorney |
DAVID E. HIZAMI Deputy Public Defender |
LISA R. JASKOL Attorney |
ANDREW C. KIM Deputy District Attorney |
LARONDA J. MCCOY Alternate Public Defender’s Head Deputy |
WILLIAM L. SADLER Commissioner |
Gov. Jerry Brown yesterday named 18 new judges to the state’s trial courts, including seven to the Los Angeles Superior Court.
The seven are Maria Davalos, Dean Hansell, David E. Hizami, Lisa R. Jaskol, Andrew C. Kim, LaRonda J. McCoy and William L. Sadler.
Davalos, 44, has served as a deputy district attorney since 2006 and was a deputy city prosecutor in Long Beach before that. She is a graduate of UCLA and Loyola Law School and fills the vacancy created by the elevation of Judge John L. Segal to the Court of Appeal.
Hansell, 64, has been a partner at Hogan Lovells US LLP since 2012. He was a partner at Dewey and LeBoeuf from 1988 to 2012, and was an associate there from 1986 to 1988.
His previous legal work occurred at two private firms, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. He was a City of Los Angeles police commissioner from 1997 to 2001, and is a graduate of Denison University in Ohio and of the Northwestern University School of Law.
Hansell is a co-founder of GLAAD, formerly the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and was honored with the organization’s Founders Award in 2013. He fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Arthur H. Jean.
Deputy Public Defender
Hizami, 49, has served as a deputy public defender since 1993 and previously had a brief tenure at O’Flaherty and Belgum. He is a graduate of USC and Tulane University Law School and fills the vacancy created by the elevation of Judge Luis A. Lavin to the Court of Appeal.
Jaskol, 56, has been directing attorney of Public Counsel Law Center’s Appellate Law Program since 2007. She was at Horvitz and Levy LLP from 1991 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2007, having directed Public Counsel’s Homelessness Prevention Law Project in between.
She was previously at Irell and Manella LLP and clerked for Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Harry Pregerson. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Yale Law School, with a master of arts degree from the University of Chicago, and fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Owen Lee Kwong.
Kim, 42, has served as a deputy district attorney since 1999, having previously been a contract attorney at Jackson and Abdalah. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Santa Clara University School of Law and fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Leland B. Harris.
McCoy, 55, joined the Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defender’s Office in 1996 and has been a head deputy since last year. She served as a deputy public from 1990 to 1996.
She graduated from California State University, Dominguez Hills and Hastings College of the Law, and succeeds Judge Ronald V. Skyers, who retired.
Court Commissioner
Sadler, 52, has been a commissioner of the court since 2014 and previously served as a deputy public defender for more than 25 years. He graduated from California State University, Fullerton and Loyola Law School, and fills the vacancy created by the death of Judge Jan A. Pluim.
Brown made the following appointments in other counties:
•Carlos R. Gutierrez, 58, an attorney in private practice, to the Solano Superior Court;
•Lupe C. Garcia, 47, associate general counsel and senior director for global integrity at Gap Inc., to the Alameda Superior Court;
•Roger C. Chan, 43, executive director at East Bay Children’s Law Offices, to the San Francisco County Superior Court;
•John P. Bianco, owner and attorney at the Bianco Law Firm, and Deputy Public Defender Nathan G. Leedy, to the Tulare Superior Court;
•Deputy District Attorney Craig B. Van Rooyen, 49, to the San Luis Obispo Superior Court;
•Ventura Superior Court Commissioner Michele M. Castillo, 47, as a judge of that court;
•Layne H. Melzer, 54, a partner at Rutan and Tucker LLP, and criminal defense lawyer Gary M. Pohlson to the Orange Superior Court; and
•Frank L. Birchak, director of training, recruitment and career development at the San Diego County Public Defender’s Office, to the San Diego Superior Court.
Bianco and Melzer are Republicans, Garcia is registered without party preference, and the others are Democrats.
The current salary of a superior court judge is $189,041.
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