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Newsom Appoints Four to L.A. Superior Court
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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LATRICE A.G. BYRDSONG |
DANIELLE COLON O’SULLIVAN |
ALEXANDER P. SARIO |
STEPHANIE STORY |
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Gov. Gavin Newsom yesterday made four appointments to the Los Angeles Superior Court including that of court Commissioner Latrice A.G. Byrdsong, wife of Judge Rupert Byrdsong.
She is one of three judicial Byrdsongs. Kristen H. Byrdsong, Rupert Byrdsong’s ex-wife, is a court commissioner.
Newsom also appointed Los Angeles County Deputy Public Defender Danielle Colon O’Sullivan, Los Angeles County Deputy Alternate Public Defender Alexander P. Sario, and West Covina family law attorney Stephanie Story, president of the Italian American Lawyers Association.
Latrice Byrdsong was elected by judges as a commissioner last year. She was benefits counsel for Toyota Motor North America from 2013-23.
Her law degree is from Columbia.
O’Sullivan was a deputy public defender from 2008-16, spent some time in 2016 as senior counsel at LimNexus, and returned to the Public Defender’s Office in 2016.
Sario has been with the Alternate Public Defender’s Office since 2008, and was a deputy public defender in the county from 2007-08.
Story has been a sole practitioner since 2014 and was an associate at L.A. Law Group from 2011-14.
Byrdsong fills the vacancy created by the death of Judge James R. Dunn; O’Sullivan succeeds Judge Maren E. Nelson who retired; Judge Michael L. Stern assumes the seat vacated by Judge Michael L. Stern, who retired; and Story takes the place of Judge Henry J. Hall, who also retired.
All four are Democrats.
Newsom made six other Superior Court appointments—one in Alameda County, one in Orange County, one in Plumas County, two in Santa Clara County, and one in Ventura County—in addition to nominating two judges to serve in courts of appeal. If confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments, Alameda Superior Court Judge Charles A. Smiley will fill a vacancy on First District’s Div. One and Orange Superior Court Judge Nathan R. Scott will become a member of the Fourth District’s Div. Three.
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