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LASC Judge Trendacosta to Retire on Friday
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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ANTHONY TRENDACOSTA Superior Court judge |
Judge Anthony Trendacosta, 74, will be leaving the Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday after a judicial career that goes back to 1998.
It was in September of that year that he began service as an as-needed referee. He was assigned primarily to juvenile dependency matters as a referee, then as a commissioner from 2006-14, and, since his appointment by then-Gov. Jerry Brown on Dec. 24, 2014, as a judge.
“Juvenile Dependency is hard and sometimes heartbreaking work, but it has been my pleasure to work in the best courthouse with the best colleagues ever,” he said Friday. “It is the collegiality that has kept me going all these years.”
Trendacosta—who will officially retire on March 14 after using earned vacation days—related:
“We have a house in the Santa Ynez Valley and will probably spend more time there.
“I have applied to the Assigned Judges Program and hopefully will be come back to sit where ever the court needs me.”
In 2019, he was named the Wilmont Sweeney Juvenile Court Judge of the Year for 2019 by the Juvenile Court Judges of California, a section of the California Judges Association (“CJA”). The award was presented on Dec. 17 of that year at a statewide conference.
The CJA said, in announcing the award:
“Throughout his career he has distinguished himself as a judicial officer, a trainer of judges, and a member of numerous committees charged with making improvements to juvenile law. He was a strong supporter of dependency mediation, believing that cases would resolve more effectively if the parties were able to talk privately with a mediator.”
The judge was a supervising attorney at the Los Angeles Office of County Counsel from 1987-89. an associate at the Law Offices of Barry Rothman in 1989, general counsel at the Santa Monica Rent Control Board from 1989-98, and of counsel at the Law Offices of Donald Gindy from 2000-05.
His law degree is from the San Fernando Valley College of Law.
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