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Commission on Judicial Performance Elects Lisa Lench, LASC Judge, as Chairperson
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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LISA B. LENCH Superior Court judge |
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lench has been elected chairperson of the Commission on Judicial Performance, it was announced yesterday.
Lench, who has served on the commission since 2019, succeeds college professor Michael Moodian, whose term ended Feb. 28. She has served on the Superior Court since 2002, an appointee of then-Gov. Gray Davis.
The jurist currently presides over a complex criminal trial court and serves on the Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Code of Judicial Ethics. She previously chaired the California Judges Association’s Judicial Ethics Committee and was a member of the Judicial Education and Research Ethics Advisory/Curriculum Committee. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Lench was a deputy chief of the Narcotics Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. She graduated from Loyola Law School.
Also announced yesterday was the election of attorney Mani Sheik as vice-chairperson of the commission. Sheik has been the principal at the San Francisco-based firm Sheik Law Inc. since 2014.
Lench and Sheik were elected to the positions at a commission meeting last Wednesday.
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