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Newsom Appoints Judge Lucy Armendariz to Committee Examining CJP
By a MetNews Staff Writer
Gov. Gavin Newsom yesterday announced his appointment of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lucy Armendariz to the Committee to Review the Operations and Structure of the Commission on Judicial Performance.
The 15-member committee was created by legislation last year. It is to “study and make recommendations for changes in the operations and structure of the commission that would improve the commission’s ability to carry out its mission to protect the public, enforce rigorous standards of judicial conduct, and maintain public confidence in the integrity and independence of the judiciary.”
Armendariz won election to the Superior Court in the June 5, 2018 primary. Then-Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her to the post in October of that year, giving her a head start.
Appointed by the Senate Rules Committee, she was a State Bar Court judge from 2007 until her ascendency to the Superior Court.
Her career included serving as legal counsel for the California State Senate Committee on Public Safety, as a legal consultant for then-Assemblyman Robert M. Hertzberg (now a state senator and a candidate for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors), and as chief of staff for then-Sen. Gloria Romero.
Then-Gov. Gray Davis appointed Armendariz as the ombudsman for women’s prisons in California, serving in that post from 1999 to 2002
Then-Attorney General Xavier Becerra named her to the California Access to Justice Commission, with a term expiring on June 30.
Her 1997 law degree is from the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law.
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