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Newsom Appoints Three to L.A. Superior Court
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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ED CHAU State Assemblymember |
DONALD BUDDLES Deputy Public Defender |
PATY YOUNG Federal Public Defender |
Gov. Gavin Newsom yesterday announced the appointment of three persons, including a member of the state Assembly, to the Los Angeles Superior Court, as well as making an appointment to the Court of Appeal and to superior courts in seven other counties.
The governor chose Assembly Assistant Majority Leader Edwin P. Chau, D-Monterey Park, 64, to replace Judge Robert J. Perry, who retired. He was a sole practitioner from 1994 until his election to the Assembly in 2012 and served on the Montebello Unified School District Board Member from 2000 to 2012.
Donald A. Buddle Jr., 42, a deputy public defender in Los Angeles since 2007, will take the seat previously occupied by Judge Michael A. Tynan, who retired.
Succeeding Judge Ramona G. See, who retired, is Supervising Deputy Federal Public Defender Patricia A. Young, 42. She has been with the Office of the Federal Public Defender for Central District of California since 2009 and was appointed to her present post in 2014.
Chau’s law degree is from Southwestern; Buddle earned his at Whittier; and Young is a graduate of the law school at Stanford. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Laurie M. Earl, 60, has been nominated to serve on the Third District Court of Appeal. She has been a trial court judge since 2005.
Earl must be confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments, comprised of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Attorney General Rob Bonta, and Third District Presiding Justice Vance W. Raye.
Newsom made 11 appointments to superior courts, in all. Aside from those in Los Angeles County, he selected judges for the counties of Alameda County, Kings County, Merced, Modoc, Nevada, Sacramento, and Tulare. Earl and all of the Superior Court appointees but two are Democrats; those two are unaffiliated.
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