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Judge Patricia J. Titus to Retire From Superior Court
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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PATRICIA J. TITUS Superior Court judge |
Judge Patricia J. Titus’s last day on the bench will be Feb. 25, ending a judicial career that began in 2001.
After using earned vacation days, she will officially retire on March 31,
In 2000, Titus defeated then-Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Deborah Christian in a race for the Inglewood Municipal Court. The contest was thought to be the first in Los Angeles County judicial election in which two African American women competed.
Although only persons who resided in the Inglewood Judicial District—comprised of Inglewood, Hawthorne, El Segundo, Athens, Lennox and Ladera Heights—could vote, it was, in reality, a Los Angeles District Court election, given the impending demise of municipal courts, under court unification.
(Christan was appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court in 2002.)
Titus, whose law degree is from UCLA, was a Los Angeles Country deputy district attorney at the time of her election to the bench. She was president of the Black Women Lawyer’s Association of Los Angeles from 1992-93.
The John M. Langston Bar Association in 2021 installed her in its Hall of Fame. In 2017, then-Assembly member Autumn Burke, D-South Bay, honored her as woman of the year.
The judge did not respond to a request for comment on her plans and reflections.
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