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Navarro, Truong, Goodman Named to LASC
By a MetNews Staff Writer
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday named Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioners Angel Navarro and Terry Truong and private practitioner Diane Goodman to seats on the Los Angeles Superior Court.
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ANGEL NAVARRO |
TERRY TRUONG |
DIANE GOODMAN |
Los Angeles Superior Court appointees
He also nominated Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shama Hakim Mesiwala, 48, to serve on the Third District Court of Appeal and appointed 12 persons to superior courts in other counties.
Navarro, 58, has been a subordinate judicial officer since 2022. Before that, he was a sole practitioner, and he has also served as a deputy federal public defender in the Central District of California.
Truong, 55, has been a bench officer since 2014. She was in the Los Angeles County Counsel’s Office at the time she was hired, and earlier served the court as a research attorney and then as a referee,
Goodman, 64, has been a sole practitioner since 2010, and before that was a partner in the Law Office of Goodman & Metz.
The commissioners have law degrees from UCLA and Goodman graduated from the University of La Verne College of Law. Goodman also has a doctorate in philosophy and master of arts degree in depth psychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute.
The new judges replace jurists who retired; Navarro succeeds Judge Daniel J. Buckley, Truong assumes the seat held by Judge William D. Stewart, and Goodman replaces Judge Susan L. Lopez-Giss.
Mesiwala earned her law degree at the University of California at Davis School of Law.
If confirmed by Commission on Judicial Appointments, she will assume the post that had been held by Justice Coleman Blease.
The commission will be comprised of Attorney General Rob Bonta and Ronald Robie, the district’s senior presiding justice, as well as the state’s chief justice. As of Jan. 1, that will be Patricia Guerrero.
All four are Democrats, as are nine of the Superior Court appointees; three state no party preference.
Newsom is following the tradition of his predecessor, Jerry Brown, in announcing a spate of judicial appointments right before Christmas.
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