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Judges Elect Montgomery LASC Commissioner
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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JAMES I. MONTGOMERY JR. Commissioner-elect |
The counting of ballots yesterday at noon resulted in a declaration that West Los Angeles civil litigation defense attorney James I. Montgomery Jr. has been elected a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner.
A vacancy was created by the retirement of Commissioner Kristi Lousteau. Judges had the option of voting for Lousteau’s successor electronically or by paper ballot, choosing from a list of seven finalists named by a screening committee.
The finalists were Montgomery, a partner in Gibbs Giden Locher Turner Senet & Wittbrodt LLP; Principal Deputy Los Angeles County Counsel Syna N. Dennis; Deputy Los Angeles City Attorney Michelle Lim; private practitioner Latrice Byrdsong; Karine Mkrtchyan, a partner at Fraser Watson & Croutch, LLP; Chief Deputy Los Angeles County Counsel Lawrence L. Hafetz; and Los Angeles County Bar Association President Ann I. Park, Ann I. Park, of counsel at Foley & Mansfield PLLP.
Countiung the ballots were Los Angeles Superior Court Judges Maureen Duffy-Lewis, Terry A. Green, and Patti Jo McKay.
Montgomery has been with Gibbs Giden since 1999. He is a former president of the John M. Langston Bar Association has beem indicted into that association’s Hall of Fame.
His law degree is from UCLA.
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