Governor Appoints 10 Persons to Los Angeles Superior Court

Monday, June 4, 2018

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Governor Appoints 10 Persons to Los Angeles Superior Court

By a MetNews Staff Writer


WENDY W. Y. CHANG *Attorney*	WILLIAM A. CROWFOOT *Assistant U.S. Attorney*	CHRISTOPHER DYBWAD *Chief Deputy Federal Public Defender*	ALTUS W. HUDSON *Sole Practitioner*	MICHELLE C. KIM *Deputy Alternate Public Defender*

TERRANCE T. LEWIS *Commissioner*	DEBRA L. LOSNICK *Commissioner*	JEAN M. NELSON *Attorney*	JONATHAN ROSENBLOOM *Sole Practitioner*	HELEN ZUKIN *Attorney*

Gov. Edmund G. Brown on Friday appointed 10 persons to the Los Angeles Superior Court, all Democrats, and 11 in other counties.

Chosen for the Los Angeles bench were:

•Wendy W. Y. Chang, 47. She has been a partner at Hinshaw and Culbertson LLP since 2008, where she was a senior associate from 2004-08; she was a senior associate at Manatt, Phelps and Phillips LLP from 2003-04 and an associate at Baker, Keener and Nahra from 1998-2003. Chang earned her law degree from Loyola. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Frank J. Johnson.

•William A. Crowfoot, 61. Crowfoot has served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California since 2003. He was a member of the Pasadena City Council from 1993-2001 and a senior associate at Paul Hastings LLP from 1997-2001, where he was an associate and of counsel from 1987-1995. His law degree is from George Washington. He fills the vacancy created by the elevation of Judge Anne H. Egerton to Div. Three of this district’s Court of Appeal.

•Christopher W. Dybwad, 43. of Los Angeles, He has been chief deputy federal public defender in the Central District of California since 2014, and has been in the office since 2005. He was an associate at Debevoise and Plimpton from 2004-2005 and from 2001-2003. His law degree was obtained from Harvard. He fills the vacancy created by the death of Judge Ross M. Klein.

•Altus W. Hudson, 52. Hudson has been a sole practitioner since 2011. He was a partner and attorney at Kidd and Hudson from 1998 to 2011, and was a Los Angeles deputy city attorney from 1995-98. He has a law degree from Southwestern. He fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge David S. Wesley.

•Michelle C. Kim, 44. She has served as a Los Angeles deputy alternate public defender since 2005 was a Los Angeles deputy public defender for two years before that. Kim’s law degree is from UCLA. She fills the vacancy created by the conversion of a court commissioner position on June 26, 2017.

•Terrance T. Lewis, 60. Lewis has served as a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner since 2014, and was a Los Angeles deputy public defender from 1988-2014. He secured his law degree from Loyola. He fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Karen J. Nudell.

•Debra L. Losnick, 58. Losnick has been a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner since 1996, after serving as a juvenile court referee from 1990-96. She was a contract attorney for the Los Angeles County Counsel’s Office from 1986-90, and was an associate at Nossaman, Gunther, Knox and Elliott in 1986. She was a 2014 candidate for the Los Angeles Superior Court, losing to then-Deputy District Attorney (now Judge) Shannon Knight. Losnick has a law degree from Southwestern. She fills the vacancy created by the conversion of a court commissioner position on Dec. 14, 2017.

•Jean M. Nelson, 54. Nelson has been a partner at Scheper Kim and Harris LLP since 2008. She served was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California from 1995-2006 and was an associate at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown and Enersen LLP from 1992-95. Nelson’s law degree is from New York University. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Lesley C. Green.

•Jonathan L. Rosenbloom. 54. Rosenbloom has been a sole practitioner since 2009. He was a partner in Rosenbloom and Rosenbloom from 1997-2009, and was an associate at Anker, Hymes and Schreiber from 1992-97, at Maiden, Rosenbloom, Wintroub, Fridkis and Resser from 1990-92 and at Berman, Blanchard, Mausner and Kindem from 1989-90. Rosenbloom earned his law degree at Northwestern. He fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Leland H. Tipton.

•Helen Zukin, 60. Zukin has been a partner at Kiesel Law LLP since 2010, where she was of counsel from 2006-2010. She was a sole practitioner from 1995-2006 and a partner at Simke, Chodos, Silberfeld and Anteau, Inc. from 1992-95, where she was an associate from 1990-92. Zukin was an associate at Greene, O’Reilly, Agnew and Broillet from 1985-90. She has a law degree from Loyola. She fills the vacancy created by the conversion of a court commissioner position on Dec. 14, 2017.

Also appointed to superior courts were two persons in Alameda one each in Humboldt, Inyo, Kern, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Solano, Trinity, and Tulare.