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Newsom Appoints Three to L.A. Superior Court
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced the appointment of two government lawyers and a court to judgeships on the Los Angeles Superior Court.
The selections were announced Monday afternoon.
William Shin, who has served as a deputy attorney general with the California office since 2005 and as a staff judge advocate and deputy with the state’s Air National Guard beginning in 2019, was chosen to replace Judge Julie Fox Blackshaw, who retired. Shin, a graduate of Loyola Law School, also worked as a deputy district attorney with Riverside County between 2004-05.
Succeeding retired Judge Lee R. Bogdanoff is Kimberly Dotson, who has been a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner since 2018. Dotson earned a law degree from the University of West Los Angeles and previously worked as a deputy public defender for Los Angeles Cunty.
Faye Chen Barnouw, an assistant regional director at the Federal Trade Commission, has been appointed to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Deborah L. Sanchez. Barnouw clerked for then-Senior Ninth Circuit Judge Warren J. Ferguson (now deceased) between 1993-94 and worked as an associate at Parker Milliken Clark O’Hara & Samuelian from 1994-97; she graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law.
All three of the appointees are registered Democrats.
Newsom made seven appointments to superior courts in other counties, selecting judges for Alameda, Merced, Orange, San Bernardino, and San Francisco. Five are Democrats and two claim no party preference.
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